Fitzgerald and Pass... Again

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{{Infobox album

| name = Fitzgerald and Pass...Again

| type = studio

| artist = Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass

| cover = FitzgeraldandPassagain.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1976

| recorded = January 26 – February 8, 1976

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = {{Duration|m=54|s=49}}

| label = Pablo

| producer = Norman Granz

| chronology = Ella Fitzgerald

| prev_title = Montreux '75

| prev_year = 1975

| next_title = Montreux '77

| next_year = 1977

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Joe Pass

| type = studio

| prev_title = Virtuoso No. 2

| prev_year = 1976

| title = Fitzgerald and Pass...Again

| year = 1976

| next_title = Quadrant

| next_year = 1977

}}

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Fitzgerald and Pass...Again is a 1976 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by jazz guitarist Joe Pass, the second of four duet albums they recorded together after Take Love Easy (1973).

Fitzgerald's performance on this album won her the 1977 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. The duo would record two later albums together, Speak Love (1983), and Easy Living (1986).

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 =AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web |first=Scott |last=Yanow |title= Fitzgerald and Pass... Again > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r138684 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=November 5, 2011}}

| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}

|rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev3score = {{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=492}}

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In his AllMusic review, critic Scott Yanow wrote that the album "finds the duo uplifting 14 superior standards with subtle improvising and gentle swing."

Track listing

Personnel

Recorded January 26 - February 8, 1976, at RCA Victor's Music Center of the World Hollywood, Los Angeles:

References