Paul Desmond - Easy Living [Japanese Reissue]

Title: Easy Living [Japanese Reissue] Artist: Paul Desmond Release Date: 7/31/2006 Re-Released On: 2/1/2008 Label: Sbme Special Mkts., BMG, BMG International Album Type(s): Greatest Hits, Instrumental UPCs: 4988017603260, 4988017647189, 766487251624, 886972493329 Genre: Jazz Styles: Cool, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz Moods: Calm/Peaceful, Elegant, Gentle, Intimate, Laid-Back/Mellow, Melancholy, Poignant, Reflective, Romantic, Soothing, Sophisticated, Amiable/Good-Natured, Austere, Delicate, Earnest, Light, Literate, Passionate, Plaintive, Refined/Mannered, Relaxed, Reserved, Sensual, Sentimental, Stately, Stylish, Warm, Wistful, Witty Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. When Joanna Loved Me
2. That Old Feeling
3. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. Easy Living
6. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
7. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
8. Blues for Fun

Year Type Label Catalog # 2008 CD Sbme Special Mkts. 724933 2007 CD BMG 37544 2001 CD BMG International 37220 ------ CD BMG International 37220

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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, adding two outtakes, "All Through the Night" and "Rude Old Man," when the album was transferred to CD in 1990. These are, however, anything but leftovers; 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." Nothing wrong with the outtakes, either; both are gems, although you will hear one -- just one! -- of Desmond's extremely rare smudged notes on his last entrance of "All Through the Night." Besides mainstays Hall and Connie Kay, three bass players -- Gene Cherico, Gene Wright, and Percy Heath, all no stranger to Desmond sessions -- alternate on these tracks. [The 2001 Japanese reissue doesn't include "All Through the Night" and "Rude Old Man," but has the original LP's cover art and a detailed description of the recording process.] ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide

Name Credits Connie Kay Drums Doug Ramsey Liner Notes Eugene Wright Bass Gene Cherico Bass Gene Wright Bass George Avakian Liner Notes, Producer Jim Hall Guitar Joaquin J. Lopes Engineer Joe López Engineer Paul Desmond Sax (Alto) Percy Heath Bass Ray Hall Engineer Warren Schatz Producer