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{{Infobox album
| name       = Fitzgerald and Pass...Again
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Ella Fitzgerald]] and [[Joe Pass]]
| cover      = FitzgeraldandPassagain.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1976
| recorded   = January 26 – February 8, 1976
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Jazz]]
| length     = {{Duration|m=54|s=49}}
| label      = [[Pablo Records|Pablo]]
| producer   = [[Norman Granz]]
| chronology = [[Ella Fitzgerald]]
| prev_title = [[Montreux '75]]
| prev_year  = 1975
| next_title = [[Montreux '77 (Ella Fitzgerald album)|Montreux '77]]
| next_year  = 1977
| misc       = {{Extra chronology
 | artist     = [[Joe Pass]]
 | type       = studio
 | prev_title = [[Virtuoso No. 2]]
 | prev_year  = 1976
 | title      = Fitzgerald and Pass...Again
 | year       = 1976
 | next_title = [[Quadrant (album)|Quadrant]]
 | next_year  = 1977
}}
}}
'''''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 [[Grammy Awards of 1977|1977 Grammy Award]] for [[Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album|Best Jazz Vocal Album]]. The duo would record two later albums together, ''[[Speak Love]]'' (1983), and ''[[Easy Living (Ella Fitzgerald album)|Easy Living]]'' (1986).

==Reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 =[[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web |first=Scott |last=Yanow |title= ''Fitzgerald and Pass... Again'' > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= r138684 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=November 5, 2011}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref> 
|rev3 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]''
|rev3score  = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=492}}</ref>
}}
In his [[AllMusic]] review, critic [[Scott Yanow]] wrote that the album "finds the duo uplifting 14 superior standards with subtle improvising and gentle swing."<ref name="AM" />

==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 (composer)|Arthur Johnston]])  – 4:49
# "[[That Old Feeling (song)|That Old Feeling]]" ([[Lew Brown]], [[Sammy Fain]])  – 2:45
# "Rain" (Eugene Ford)  – 2:22
# "[[I Didn't Know About You]]" (Ellington, [[Bob Russell (songwriter)|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 (song)|Nature Boy]]" ([[eden ahbez]])  – 2:24
# "[[The Tennessee Waltz|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|Hollywood]], [[Los Angeles]]:

* [[Ella Fitzgerald]] - [[Singing|vocals]]
* [[Joe Pass]] - [[guitar]]
* [[Norman Granz]] - [[Record producer|producer]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Ella Fitzgerald}}
{{Joe Pass}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:1976 collaborative albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Norman Granz]]
[[Category:Ella Fitzgerald albums]]
[[Category:Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album]]
[[Category:Joe Pass albums]]
[[Category:Pablo Records albums]]
[[Category:Vocal–instrumental duet albums]]