Digital III at Montreux this album won her the 1982 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female. Recorded July 12, 1979, in Montreux, Switzerland: Digital III at Montreux Digital III at Montreux is a 1979 live album featuring a compilation of performances by Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Joe Pass, and Ray Brown, recorded at the 1979 Montreux Jazz Festival. It was produced and has liner notes by Norman Granz, the cover photo is by Phil Stern. This is one of four albums featuring Fitzgerald at the Montreux Jazz Festival and is Fitzgerald's third Montreux appearance to be released on record.
Leopolis Jazz Fest Leopolis Jazz Fest Leopolis Jazz Fest (previously Alfa Jazz Fest) is an international jazz festival, annually held in June in Lviv (Ukraine) since 2011. The Guardian included Alfa Jazz Fest in the list of the best European festivals. The festival was established by Mikhail Fridman, a businessman, co-founder of LetterOne, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Alfa Group and a native of Lviv, in 2011. Until 2017 the main sponsor of the festival was Alfa Bank Ukraine, and therefore the festival was called Alfa Jazz Fest. In 2017, the festival was renamed to Leopolis Jazz Fest to indicate its venue