The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World is a 1967 live album featuring Duke Ellington and his orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, T-Bone Walker, Coleman Hawkins, Clark Terry and Zoot Sims.
[1] Billy Strayhorn's "Blood Count" was debuted at the Carnegie Hall concert featured on the album.
[2] The album marked the last recorded collaboration between Fitzgerald and Ellington and his orchestra.
During the opening of "Sweet Georgia Brown" Hawkins can be heard to say "I guess I've gotta go through with it".
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow noted: "In addition to having a somewhat immodest title, this three-CD set was not actually one single concert but two...the music on the reissue is often quite special...Maybe this really was 'the Greatest Jazz Concert' after all".