Easy to Love (Roland Hanna album)

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Easy to Love
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Released1960
RecordedSeptember 25, 1959
StudioNew York City, NY
Genre Jazz
Length37:20
Label ATCO
SD 33-121
Producer Gary Kramer, Nesuhi Ertegun
Roland Hanna chronology
Destry Rides Again
(1959)
Easy to Love
(1960)
Child of Gemini
(1971)

Easy to Love (surtitled The Piano of Roland Hanna) is an album by pianist Roland Hanna recorded in 1959 and released by the ATCO label early the following year. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Track listing

  1. "The Best Things in Life Are Free" (Ray Henderson, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown) – 4:03
  2. "Next Time You See Me" (Ben Tucker) – 5:04
  3. "From This Day On" ( Leigh Harline, Mort Greene) – 4:38
  4. "Like Someone in Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 4:27
  5. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) – 4:09
  6. "Farouk Thelonious" (Tucker) – 3:40
  7. "It Never Entered My Mind" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 4:03
  8. "Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:37
  9. "Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) – 3:08

Personnel

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