Easy Living (Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Easy Living

| type = studio

| artist = Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass

| cover = Easy Living Cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1986

| recorded = February 25,28, 1986

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 56:14

| label = Pablo

| producer = Norman Granz

| chronology = Ella Fitzgerald

| prev_title = Nice Work If You Can Get It

| prev_year = 1983

| next_title = All That Jazz

| next_year = 1989

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Joe Pass

| type = studio

| prev_title = University of Akron Concert

| prev_year = 1985

| title = Easy Living

| year = 1986

| next_title = Sound Project

| next_year = 1987

}}

}}

Easy Living is a 1986 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by guitarist Joe Pass. 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.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9w4VAAAAIBAJ&pg=6818,535034&dq|title=List of Grammy nominees|date=January 13, 1989|access-date=June 17, 2010|work=The Blade|publisher=Block Communications|location=Toledo, Ohio}}

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).

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 =AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite web |first=Scott |last=Yanow |title= Easy Living > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r138699 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=November 5, 2011}}

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=493}}

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In his AllMusic review, critic Scott Yanow wrote that "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

Personnel

References