Released 1983 Length 42:33 Release date 1983 Label Pablo Records | Recorded March 21-22, 1983 Artists Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Pass Producer Norman Granz Genres Jazz, Vocal jazz | |
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Speak Love
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Speak Love is a 1983 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the jazz guitarist Joe Pass.
Contents
It is the third of Fitzgerald's series of duets with Pass, following Take Love Easy (1973) and Fitzgerald and Pass... Again (1976) a later album, Easy Living, followed in 1986.
The title of the album refers to the first line of the opening song on the album, "Speak Low", a quotation from Much Ado About Nothing.
Reception
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow wrote of the album "...the setting was perhaps too intimate for what she had left. Fitzgerald's phrasing remained a joy despite the limited range, but there are many more significant records by the singer than this CD reissue despite touching versions of "Comes Love," "There's No You" and "Gone with the Wind.""
Track listing
- "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) – 4:13
- "Comes Love" (Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias) – 3:00
- "There's No You" (Tom Adair, Hal Hopper) – 4:45
- "I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful)" (Harry Ruskin, Henry Sullivan) – 5:08
- "At Last" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 4:21
- "The Thrill Is Gone" {Medley} (Lew Brown, Ray Henderson) – 4:14
- "Gone with the Wind" (Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 3:55
- "Blue and Sentimental" (Count Basie, Mack David, Jerry Livingston) – 3:06
- "Girl Talk" (Neal Hefti, Bobby Troup) – 4:09
- "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) – 6:09
Personnel
Songs
1Speak Low4:16
2Comes Love3:01
3There's No You4:49