For Once in My Life (Sylvia Syms album)

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For Once in My Life
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Studio album by Sylvia Syms
Released 1967
Recorded March 9 and April 18, 1967
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length30:35
Label Prestige
PR 7489
Producer Cal Lampley
Sylvia Syms chronology
Sylvia Is!
(1965)		For Once in My Life
(1967)		 Love Lady
(1970)

For Once in My Life is an album by American vocalist Sylvia Syms recorded in 1967 and released on the Prestige label. [1]

Sylvia Syms (singer) American jazz singer

Sylvia Syms was an American jazz singer and actress.

Prestige Records American jazz record label

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under subsidiaries. In 1971, the company was sold to Fantasy, which was later absorbed by Concord.

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "The renditions are mostly pretty brief and instantly forgettable. Not one of Sylvia Syms' more significant sets". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Vaya con Dios" (Inez James, Buddy Pepper, Larry Russell) - 4:05
  2. "Who (Will Take My Place)?" (Charles Aznavour, Herbert Kretzmer) - 3:20
  3. "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (Pino Donaggio, Vito Pallavicini, Vicki Wickham, Simon Napier-Bell) - 2:52
  4. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 4:07
  5. "Games That Lovers Play" (Larry Kusic, James Last, Günter Loose, Eddie Snyder) - 2:50
  6. "For Once in My Life" (Ron Miller, Orlando Murden) - 2:45
  7. "Solitaire" (Steve Allen, Erroll Garner) - 1:55
  8. "Yesterday" (Lennon–McCartney) - 3:15
  9. "I Will Wait for You" (Jacques Demy, Norman Gimbel, Michel Legrand) - 2:26
  10. "Don't Take Your Love from Me" (Henry Nemo) - 3:00

Personnel

Jerome Richardson was an American jazz musician, tenor saxophonist, and flute player, who also played soprano sax, alto sax, baritone sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto flute and piccolo. He played with Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, Billy Eckstine the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band, Kenny Burrell, and later with Earl Hines' small band.

Flute musical instrument of the woodwind family

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Alto flute type of flute

The alto flute is a type of Western concert flute, a musical instrument in the woodwind family. It is the next extension downward of the C flute after the flûte d'amour. It is characterized by its distinct, mellow tone in the lower portion of its range. It is a transposing instrument in G, and uses the same fingerings as the C flute.

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References

  1. ↑ Prestige Records Discography accessed July 29, 2013
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed July 29, 2013
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