Speak Love

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Speak Love
Studio album by Ella Fitzgerald
Released 1983
Recorded March 21,22, 1983
Genre Jazz
Length 42:33
Label Pablo
Producer Norman Granz
Ella Fitzgerald chronology

The Best Is Yet to Come
(1982)
Speak Love
(1983)
Nice Work If You Can Get It
(1983)
Joe Pass chronology
Virtuoso No. 4
(1983)
Speak Love
(1983)
Live at Long Beach City College
(1983)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic [1]

Speak Love is a 1983 (see 1983 in music) studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the jazz guitarist Joe Pass.

It is the third of Ella's series of duets with Pass, the two earlier albums being Take Love Easy (1973), Fitzgerald and Pass... Again (1976) and a later album Easy Living was to follow in 1986.

The title of the album refers to the first line of the opening song on the album, "Speak Low", a quotation from Much Ado About Nothing.

Track listing

  1. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) – 4:13
  2. "Comes Love" (Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias) – 3:00
  3. "There's No You" (Tom Adair, Hal Hopper) – 4:45
  4. "I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful)" (Harry Ruskin, Henry Sullivan) – 5:08
  5. "At Last" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 4:21
  6. "The Thrill Is Gone" {Medley} (Lew Brown, Ray Henderson) – 4:14
  7. "Gone with the Wind" (Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 3:55
  8. "Blue and Sentimental" (Count Basie, Mack David, Jerry Livingston) – 3:06
  9. "Girl Talk" (Neal Hefti, Bobby Troup) – 4:09
  10. "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) – 6:09

Personnel

Recorded March 21, 22, 1983, Hollywood, Los Angeles:

References

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