Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Pass - Easy Living
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Artist: Ella Fitzgerald, Joe PassEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
CD Release Date: 1991-07-01
Music Label: Pablo
Soundtracks:
- My Ship
- Don't Be That Way
- My Man
- Don't Worry 'Bout Me
- The Days Of Wine And Roses
- Easy Living
- I Don't Stand a Ghost Of A Chance With You
- Love For Sale
- Moonlight In Vermont
- On Green Dolphin Street
- Why Don't You Do Right?
- By Myself
- I Want A Little Girl
- I'm Making Believe
- Slow Boat To China
Music reviews of Easy Living
Music Review: Ella and Joe launched songs better than NASA launched spacecraft !!!
Rating: 5 Stars
Ella Fitzgerald remains The Lady Of Song despite the passing of the years; and her performance on this CD with guitarist Joe Pass stuns me with its beauty. Ella and Joe fit together so well; and every moment of this CD proves it.
Ella starts off by singing "My Ship." "My Ship" showcases Ella's remarkable ability to deliver a love song with great sensitivity and panache. Joe's soft and supple guitar playing awes me; his solo on this number proves he's one of the best guitar players Ella could have picked for her partner on this album.
"Don't Be That Way" starts off with a brief guitar solo; and when Ella comes in she plays with the tempo of her vocals to make "Don't Be That Way" a wonderful number! Ella scats a while and never misses a note as some singers do with this number that seems deceptively easy to deliver. "My Man" gets the royal treatment from Ella; she sings this with all the passion any woman would feel for her male lover. Ella lowers her voice to sing this softly; and this embellishes "My Man."
Other great treats on this CD include "The Days Of Wine And Roses." "The Days Of Wine And Roses" shows us Ella singing from all the corners of her wide vocal range of way more than just one octave. By this time you realize that this CD is one of Ella's best even though it was recorded late in her career. "Love For Sale" starts with Ella humming very soulfully; and she sings her vocals magnificently. Ella again plays with the tempo of her vocals to enhance this number; and Joe Pass makes the guitar accompaniment seem so easy although we know it really wasn't easy at all.
"On Green Dolphin Street" has some great key changes from the very start; I love it! Ella sings with all her heart of the memories she still holds dear. Joe Pass again gets a guitar solo that truly amazes me. He's right up there with the best of them!
"By Myself" was featured in the Judy Garland movie entitled I Could Go On Singing; and Ella's interpretation would make Judy proud indeed. Joe plays very softly in order to showcase Ella's voice and set it apart from the guitar. Ella's voice is therefore placed squarely in front of the musical arrangement; this helps to deliver a sad song about a person who must live life alone. This heart wrenching song never fails to move me.
The CD ends with "Slow Boat To China;" this song features the dream and joy of having your lover all to yourself for quite some while to come. The upbeat melody gets a slower than usual tempo here; but it still works well. You also get yet another guitar solo from Joe Pass. Great!
The liner notes include an essay about Ella, Joe and the songs written by Benny Green; and the cover artwork features a tasteful photo of Ella and Joe performing together.
Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass fans will consider this a "must-have" for their collections; and fans of classic pop vocals will enjoy this CD, too.
Description of Easy Living
Recorded in Los Angeles in 1983 and 1986, Easy Living was one of a series of Ella Fitzgerald-Joe Pass collaborations on Pablo throughout the '80s. In addition to the original album's 15 tracks, the reissue also includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks -- alternate takes of "Don't Be that Way" and "Love for Sale."Easy Living and the other collaborations between these two veterans "worked on many levels," says Tad Hershorn in his liner notes for the reissue. "As her voice aged and deepened, Fitzgerald discovered partial remedies in her phrasing, choices of keys and the pleasing maturity that now enveloped her still youthful voice. Pass was the perfect foil to display her diminishing resources to their best and most emotive advantage. Ella was known to incessantly toy with songs in her restless artistic striving, so one can perceive the music she made with Pass as a direct extension of her creative method. The leanness of their music underscores that even this late in her career, Ella Fitzgerald retained her bonafides as a singer for whom words did matter: not every song was merely a vehicle for her to bat notes out of the park. The allure was in the quiet majestic intimacy that focused an audience's attention on full absorption of the musings of joy, wistfulness, and melody."
The level of confidence with which each of these two musicians performs on this recording is hard to miss. "The fact that Ella could walk into the studio with a bunch of lead sheets," says Phillips, "and they could do a little rehearsal on the spot, figure out the best key for her, and he could just play it in any key behind her -- all of that takes some phenomenal musicianship . . . They have a very conversational, relaxed sensibility about them, and both musicians seem very much at ease performing together and recording together in the studio."
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