Easy Living (Ike Quebec album)

Easy Living
Studio album by Ike Quebec
Released 1987
Recorded January 20, 1962
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre Jazz
Length 56:52
Label Blue Note
BST 84103
Producer Alfred Lion
Ike Quebec chronology
Blue & Sentimental
(1961)
Easy Living
(1962)
Soul Samba
(1962)
Alternative cover
Congo Lament (LT 1089)

Easy Living is an album by American saxophonist Ike Quebec recorded in 1962, but not released on the Blue Note label until 1987.[1] The album collects all the material recorded in January 1962, five tracks from which were released in 1981 as Congo Lament.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "The mood isn't as unified as some of his carefully calibrated romantic dates, but Easy Living offers the two strongest sides of Quebec's musical personality in one place, encapsulating a great deal of what he did best".[2]

Track listing

  1. "See See Rider" (Ma Rainey) - 9:01
  2. "Congo Lament" (Bennie Green) - 6:53
  3. "Que's Pills" (Turrentine) - 5:40
  4. "B.G.'s Groove Two" (Green) - 6:15
  5. "I.Q. Shuffle" (Quebec) - 9:47
  6. "I've Got a Crush on You" (Gershwin, Gershwin) - 6:51
  7. "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 7:25
  8. "Easy Living" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 5:00

Personnel

References

  1. Blue Note Records discography accessed November 2, 2010
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed November 2, 2010
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