Easy Living (Paul Desmond album)

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Easy Living
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Studio album by Paul Desmond
Released 1966
Recorded June 5, 14 & 25, 1963, July 14 and September 9, 1964 and June 1, 1965
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 67:13
Label RCA Victor LPM 3320
Producer George Avakian
Paul Desmond chronology
Glad to Be Unhappy
(1964)Glad to Be Unhappy1964		 Easy Living
(1963-65)		 Summertime
(1968)Summertime1968

Easy Living is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond featuring performances recorded between 1963 and 1965 which were released on the RCA Victor label.[1][2][3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars[4]

Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars stating "As the Paul Desmond/Jim Hall quartet's recording activities gradually came to a halt by 1965, RCA Victor assembled the remains of a number of their later sessions into one last album. These are anything but leftovers, however -- indeed, they constitute the best Desmond/Hall album since Take Ten, more varied in texture and mood, and by and large more inspired in solo content, than Bossa Antigua and Glad to Be Unhappy".[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Paul Desmond except as indicated

  1. "When Joanna Loved Me" (Robert Wells, Jack Segal) - 5:48
  2. "That Old Feeling" (Sammy Fain, Lew Brown) - 5:49
  3. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 5:51
  4. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Van Heusen, Burke) - 5:43
  5. "Easy Living" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 7:08
  6. "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) - 4:19
  7. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Richard Rogers, Lorenz Hart) - 6:25
  8. "Blues for Fun" (Paul Desmond) - 6:28
  9. "Rude Old Man" (Eugene Wright) - 5:42 Bonus track on CD reissue
  10. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" [alternate take] (Van Huesen, Burke) - 6:13 Bonus track on CD reissue
  11. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" [alternate take] (Rogers, Hart) - 7:47 Bonus track on CD reissue
  • Recorded Webster Hall on June 5, 1963 (track 3), June 14, 1963 (track 8), June 25, 1963 (track 2) and at RCA Studio A in New York City on July 13, 1964 (track 9), July 14, 1964 (tracks 1 & 1), September 9, 1964 (track 5), September 16, 1964 (track 11) and June 1, 1965 (tracks 4, 6 & 7) .

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Paul Desmond Catalog accessed February 29, 2016
  2. ↑ Paul Desmond Discography Part Three: 1960-1969 accessed February 29, 2016
  3. ↑ Berry, S. Jim Hall discography accessed February 29, 2016
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ginell, Richard S.. Easy Living – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
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