Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72

Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72 is a 1972 live box set credited to American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald and the Count Basie Orchestra recorded at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

This concert recording was initially sold through mail order by the jazz producer and impresario, Norman Granz, as a three-LP set. The success of the album led to Granz founding Pablo Records, his first record label since Verve Records, which he had sold to MGM in 1960.

The concert was originally announced as featuring only the Count Basie Orchestra and Ella Fitzgerald, but Granz had invited some surprise "guests": a jazz trio led by the pianist Tommy Flanagan; the trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Harry "Sweets" Edison, the tenor saxophonists, Stan Getz and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, and the pianist Oscar Peterson and bassist Ray Brown.