Take Love Easy [Original recording remastered]

Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Pass, Ella Fitzgerald And Joe Pass | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 8, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Jvc / Xrcd
• ASIN: B00004STOI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #353,847 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Take Love Easy

2. Once I Loved

3. Don't Be That Way

4. You're Blasé

5. Lush Life

6. A Foggy Day

7. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You

8. You Go to My Head

9. I Want to Talk About You

Editorial Reviews

"Ella, in absolutely firs-class form, duetting with Joe Pass."- Jazz Of Ella, what can be said? She is sublime, the ultimate jazz singer and nowhere is that more apparent than here, where she appears in duet with guitar virtuoso Joe Pass. Fitzgerald and Pass show why they are among the supreme interpreters of the popular song repertory. Take Love Easy is sheer perfection.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best recordings from the dynamic duo..., February 3, 2000

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Joseph Cossette (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Take Love Easy (Audio CD)

Although the other recordings from this duo are also great, this title is my most favorite one. Every song stands out for their unique jazz interpretation of these classic tunes. Vocal/jazz duos are very difficult to pull off, but you'd never know it by listening to these recordings. Joe Pass's guitar work here is some of his best in a duo setting. Ella's melodic improvisations on these tunes is incredible. Definately one of the greatest jazz duos of all time.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Dark Blend, June 23, 2002

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Burçak Savaþkurt (Istanbul,Turkey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Take Love Easy (Audio CD)

This is the debut of Ella and Joe Pass albums.Recorded with some deep melancholy and emotion on August 28,1973.I recommend you whole album but esp. "you go to my head" is something special and makes you feel like that it never ends."Lush Life" and Jobim's "Once I Loved" are album's highlights and probably will make you cry as the rest of the album would do.Listen to this and realize how a jazz singer becomes A legend with lotta proofs and how a jazz guitar is played that perfect by a god,Joe Pass.
Very dark very sensitive.This is the event!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This has endured many years as my favorite album., October 26, 1999

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Kristen Lindquist ([e-mail]) (San Francisco, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Take Love Easy (Audio CD)

Though I enjoy music of many different genres, this album transcends genre for me somehow. In these sessions, two astounding artists, who share an incredible chemistry, communicate the nuances of wit and tenderness with exquisitely sophisticated simplicity. It is a rare gem.