I Thought About You (Shirley Horn album)

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I Thought About You
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Live album by
Shirley Horn
Released1987
RecordedMay 12–13, 1987, Vine St. Bar and Grill, Hollywood
Genre Vocal jazz
Length52:54
Label Verve
Shirley Horn chronology
Softly
(1987)		I Thought About You
(1987)		 Close Enough for Love
(1989)

I Thought About You is a 1987 live album by Shirley Horn, her first album for Verve Records. [1]

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Reception

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In the opinion of Allmusic reviewer Scott Yanow: "This live set...was Shirley Horn's 'comeback' album after many years in which she purposely maintained a low profile as she raised her daughter. Typical of Horn's music ever since, she sings intimate ballads with her trio...and plays very effective piano behind her vocals". [1]

Track listing

  1. "Something Happens to Me" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 3:41
  2. "The Eagle and Me" (Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg) – 3:10
  3. "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 4:58
  4. "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:33
  5. "Isn't It Romantic?" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 6:02
  6. "Estate (Summer)" (Bruno Brighetti, Bruno Martino, Joel E. Siegel) – 7:42
  7. "Nice 'n' Easy" (Lew Spence, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman) – 4:54
  8. "I Thought About You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer) – 5:59
  9. "The Great City" (Curtis Reginald Lewis) – 2:52
  10. "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" (Frank Loesser) – 5:26
  11. "Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gene Lees) – 11:56

Personnel

Performance
Production

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "I Thought About You". Allmusic . Retrieved October 8, 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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