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Easy Living (Ike Quebec album)

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Released
  
1987

Easy Living (1962)
  
Soul Samba (1962)

Release date
  
1987

Label
  
Blue Note Records

Length
  
56:52

Artist
  
Ike Quebec

Producer
  
Alfred Lion

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
January 20, 1962 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Similar
  
Ike Quebec albums, Jazz albums

Easy Living is an album by American saxophonist Ike Quebec recorded in 1962, but not released on the Blue Note label until 1987. The album collects all the material recorded in January 1962, five tracks from which were released in 1981 as Congo Lament.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "The mood isn't as unified as some of his carefully calibrated romantic dates, but Easy Living offers the two strongest sides of Quebec's musical personality in one place, encapsulating a great deal of what he did best". THe Easy Living LP did not contain all the sextet tracks from the Congo Lament session.

Track listing

  1. "See See Rider" (Ma Rainey) - 9:01
  2. "Congo Lament" (Bennie Green) - 6:53
  3. "Que's Pill" (Turrentine) - 5:40
  4. "B.G.'s Groove Two" (Green) - 6:15
  5. "I.Q. Shuffle" (Quebec) - 9:47
  6. "I've Got a Crush on You" (Gershwin, Gershwin) - 6:51
  7. "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 7:25
  8. "Easy Living" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 5:00

Personnel

  • Ike Quebec - tenor saxophone
  • Bennie Green - trombone (tracks 1-5)
  • Stanley Turrentine - tenor saxophone (tracks 1-5)
  • Sonny Clark - piano
  • Milt Hinton - bass
  • Art Blakey - drums
  • Songs

    1See See Rider9:03
    2Congo Lament6:54
    3Que's Pills5:40

    References

    Easy Living (Ike Quebec album) Wikipedia