Easy Living | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Ike Quebec |
Cover: | Easy Living (Ike Quebec album).jpg |
Released: | 1987 |
Recorded: | January 20, 1962 |
Studio: | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ |
Genre: | Jazz |
Length: | 56:52 |
Label: | Blue Note BST 84103 |
Producer: | Alfred Lion |
Prev Title: | Blue & Sentimental |
Prev Year: | 1961 |
Next Title: | Soul Samba |
Next Year: | 1962 |
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.
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] The Easy Living LP did not contain all the sextet tracks (#1-5) from the Congo Lament session, which can also be found in Bennie Green's Mosaic box set.