Close Enough for Love (Shirley Horn album)

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Close Enough for Love
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Studio album by
Shirley Horn
Released1989
RecordedNovember 14–16, 1988 A&R Recording, New York City
Genre Vocal jazz
Length52:54
Label Verve
Producer Ron Berinstein, Richard Seidel
Shirley Horn chronology
I Thought About You
(1987)		Close Enough for Love
(1989)		 You Won't Forget Me
(1991)

Close Enough for Love is a 1989 studio album by Shirley Horn. It was her second album; her first studio album, was on the Verve Records label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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In his review for Allmusic, Scott Yanow wrote: "Performing with her usual trio...and guest tenor Buck Hill on five of the 13 tracks, Horn is heard in definitive form throughout these studio sessions." [1]

Track listing

  1. "A Beautiful Friendship" (Donald Kahn, Stanley Styne) – 3:42
  2. "I Got Lost in His Arms" (Irving Berlin) – 4:15
  3. "Baby, Baby All the Time" (Bobby Troup) – 2:40
  4. "Close Enough for Love" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Williams) – 4:44
  5. "This Can't Be Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:45
  6. "I Wanna Be Loved" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Billy Rose) – 4:29
  7. "Come Fly with Me" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 4:00
  8. "Once I Loved (O Amor en Paz)" (Vinícius de Moraes, Ray Gilbert, Antonio Carlos Jobim) – 6:50
  9. "But Beautiful" (Johnny Burke, Van Heusen) – 4:32
  10. "Get Out of Town" (Cole Porter) – 2:42
  11. "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) – 7:23
  12. "It Could Happen to You" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 2:48
  13. "So I Love You" (Carroll Coates) – 3:15

Personnel

Performance
Production

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Close Enough for Love". Allmusic . Retrieved October 3, 2011.
  2. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 726. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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