Fitzgerald and Pass...Again is a 1976 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by jazz guitarist Joe Pass, the second of four duet albums they recorded together after Take Love Easy (1973).
Fitzgerald's performance on this album won her the 1977 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. The duo would record two later albums together, Speak Love (1983), and Easy Living (1986).
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
In his Allmusic review, critic Scott Yanow wrote the album " finds the duo uplifting 14 superior standards with subtle improvising and gentle swing."[1] According to Fitzgerald's biographer, Geoffrey Mark Fidelman, Fitzgerald and Pass...Again is "an almost perfect album".
Track listing
- "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues" (Duke Ellington, Don George) – 4:04
- "'Tis Autumn" (Henry Nemo) – 5:05
- "My Old Flame" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) – 4:49
- "That Old Feeling" (Lew Brown, Sammy Fain) – 2:45
- "Rain" (Eugene Ford) – 2:22
- "I Didn't Know About You" (Ellington, Bob Russell) – 4:41
- "You Took Advantage of Me" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:35
- "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 4:07
- "All Too Soon" (Ellington, Carl Sigman) – 4:24
- "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 4:02
- "(In My) Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:43
- "Nature Boy" (eden ahbez) – 2:24
- "Tennessee Waltz" (Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart) – 3:48
- "One Note Samba" (Jon Hendricks, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça) – 5:00
Personnel
Recorded January 26 - February 8, 1976, at RCA Victor's Music Center of the World Hollywood, Los Angeles:
- Ella Fitzgerald - vocals
- Joe Pass - guitar
- Norman Granz - producer
References
- ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "Fitzgerald and Pass... Again > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.