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Easy Living (Paul Desmond album)

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Released
  
1966

Easy Living (1963-65)
  
Summertime (1968)

Release date
  
1966

Label
  
BMG France

Length
  
67:13

Artist
  
Paul Desmond

Producer
  
George Avakian

Genre
  
Jazz

Easy Living (Paul Desmond album) cdns3allmusiccomreleasecovers500000117900

Recorded
  
June 5, 14 & 25, 1963, July 14 and September 9, 1964 and June 1, 1965 New York City

Similar
  
Paul Desmond albums, Jazz albums

Paul desmond jim hall quartet when joanna loved me


Easy Living is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond featuring performances recorded between 1963 and 1965 which were released on the RCA Victor label.

Contents

Paul desmond easy living


Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars stating "As the Paul Desmond/Jim Hall quartet's recording activities gradually came to a halt by 1965, RCA Victor assembled the remains of a number of their later sessions into one last album. These are anything but leftovers, however -- indeed, they constitute the best Desmond/Hall album since Take Ten, more varied in texture and mood, and by and large more inspired in solo content, than Bossa Antigua and Glad to Be Unhappy".

Track listing

All compositions by Paul Desmond except where noted.

  1. "When Joanna Loved Me" (Robert Wells, Jack Segal) - 5:48
  2. "That Old Feeling" (Sammy Fain, Lew Brown) - 5:49
  3. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 5:51
  4. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Van Heusen, Burke) - 5:43
  5. "Easy Living" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 7:08
  6. "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) - 4:19
  7. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Richard Rogers, Lorenz Hart) - 6:25
  8. "Blues for Fun" (Paul Desmond) - 6:28
  9. "Rude Old Man" (Eugene Wright) - 5:42 Bonus track on CD reissue
  10. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" [alternate take] (Van Huesen, Burke) - 6:13 Bonus track on CD reissue
  11. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" [alternate take] (Rogers, Hart) - 7:47 Bonus track on CD reissue

Note

  • Recorded Webster Hall on June 5, 1963 (track 3), June 14, 1963 (track 8), June 25, 1963 (track 2) and at RCA Studio A in New York City on July 13, 1964 (track 9), July 14, 1964 (tracks 1 & 1), September 9, 1964 (track 5), September 16, 1964 (track 11) and June 1, 1965 (tracks 4, 6 & 7) .
  • Personnel

  • Paul Desmond - alto saxophone
  • Jim Hall - guitar
  • Gene Cherico (tracks 3 & 8), Percy Heath (tracks 4, 6 & 7), Eugene Wright (tracks 1, 2, 5 & 9-11) - bass
  • Connie Kay - drums
  • Songs

    1When Joanna Loved Me5:43
    2That Old Feeling5:49
    3Polka Dots and Moonbeams5:52

    References

    Easy Living (Paul Desmond album) Wikipedia