Take Love Easy


Take Love Easy is an album by jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald with guitarist Joe Pass that was released in 1974.

History

This album is the first of four studio albums that Ella recorded with Pass, and it was the latest in a long line of duets for Ella with just one other instrument. Ella had previously recorded two albums with just piano accompianment, and prior to this, one had previously heard her with just a guitar on 'Wait Till You See Her' from the Rodgers & Hart Songbook, on several of the intros to the Riddle arrangements from the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook, and a few tracks on her 1957 album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook
Ella and Pass didn't only record in a studio environment however, and Digital III at Montreux are both live recordings.
The three later albums that Ella recorded with Pass were Fitzgerald and Pass... Again, Speak Love, and Easy Living. In addition, Pass featured prominently on Fitzgerald's 1981 album of songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ella Abraça Jobim.

Reception

Track listing

  1. "Take Love Easy" – 4:36
  2. "O Amor Em Paz" – 2:19
  3. "Don't Be That Way" – 4:39
  4. "You're Blasé" – 3:27
  5. "Lush Life" – 3:34
  6. "A Foggy Day" – 6:10
  7. "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You?" – 4:04
  8. "You Go To My Head" – 5:44
  9. "I Want to Talk About You" – 3:28

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