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Easy Living (Ella Fitzgerald album)

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Released
  
1986

Length
  
56:14

Easy Living (1986)
  
Sound Project (1987)

Release date
  
1986

Label
  
Pablo Records

Recorded
  
February 25,28, 1986

Easy Living (1986)
  
All That Jazz (1989)

Artists
  
Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Pass

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genres
  
Jazz, Vocal jazz

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Take Love Easy, Fitzgerald and Pass Again, Sophisticated Lady, Digital III at Montreux, Fine and Mellow

Ella fitzgerald joe pass easy living


Easy Living is a 1986 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the celebrated jazz guitarist Joe Pass. Cover photo by Tad Hershorn.

Contents

This was the fourth and final album in Fitzgerald's series of duets with Pass, the three earlier albums being Take Love Easy (1973), Fitzgerald and Pass... Again (1976) and Speak Love (1983). Fitzgerald was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female at the 30th Annual Grammy Awards for her performance on this album.

Reception

In his Allmusic review, critic Scott Yanow wrote "her voice was visibly fading, although her charm and sense of swing were still very much present. But this CD is not one of her more significant recordings, other than being one of the final chapters."

Track listing

  1. "My Ship" (Ira Gershwin, Kurt Weill) – 4:26
  2. "Don't Be That Way" (Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson) – 3:00
  3. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollock, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 3:28
  4. "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 2:46
  5. "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) – 3:04
  6. "Easy Living" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 4:14
  7. "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 6:02
  8. "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 4:38
  9. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 4:20
  10. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronislau Kaper, Ned Washington) – 3:25
  11. "Why Don't You Do Right?" (Kansas Joe McCoy) – 2:56
  12. "By Myself" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 3:26
  13. "I Want a Little Girl" (Murray Mencher, Billy Moll) – 2:46
  14. "I'm Making Believe" (Mack Gordon, James V. Monaco) – 2:38
  15. "On a Slow Boat to China" (Frank Loesser) – 5:05

Personnel

  • Ella Fitzgerald - vocals
  • Joe Pass - guitar

    • Songs

    1My Ship4:26
    2Don't Be That Way3:04
    3My Man3:30

    References

    Easy Living (Ella Fitzgerald album) Wikipedia
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