Paul Desmond - Easy Living

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1966
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:17
Size: 154,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:48)  1. When Joanna Loves Me
(5:49)  2. That Old Feeling
(5:51)  3. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
(5:43)  4. Here's That Rainy Day
(7:09)  5. Easy Living
(4:19)  6. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
(6:25)  7. Bewitched
(6:28)  8. Blues For Fun
(5:42)  9. Rude Old Man
(6:13) 10. Polka Dots And Moonbeams (alternate take)
(7:47) 11. Bewitched (alternate take)

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. As a near-ideal example of this collaboration at its intuitive peak, "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" opens with Hall paraphrasing the tune, and Desmond comes in on the bridge with a perfectly timed rejoinder that sounds as if he's asking a question. "Here's That Rainy Day" is another apt match of a standard to Desmond's sophisticated personality; he is at his dry, jaunty best on the uptempo "That Old Feeling"; and both have a ball jamming on the blues in Desmond's wry, quick "Blues for Fun." [Some reissues add a pair of outtakes, plus "Rude Old Man."] ~ Richard S.Ginell  http://www.allmusic.com/album/easy-living-mw0000652725

Personnel: Paul Desmond (alto saxophone); Jim Hall (guitar); Eugene Wright, Eugene Cherico, Percy Heath (bass); Connie Kay (drums).

Easy Living

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