Latin Lace

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Latin Lace
Shearing Latin Lace.jpeg
Studio album by
George Shearing
ReleasedMarch 1958
Recorded1958
Studio Capitol (Hollywood)
Genre Jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz
Label Capitol ST 1082
Producer Dave Cavanaugh
George Shearing chronology
Burnished Brass
(1958)		Latin Lace
(1958)		 George Shearing on Stage!
(1958)

Latin Lace is a 1958 album by jazz pianist George Shearing and his quintet. [1] [2]

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Latin Lace is one of a number of themed recordings with deliberately sexualised album covers that Shearing and his quintet produced in the 1950s; in his 2005 autobiography Lullaby of Birdland, Shearing recalled that the liner notes for the album implored the listener to "add a little spice into your pad with these twelve hot little numbers!". [3]

Reception

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Scott Yanow reviewed the album for Allmusic and awarded it three stars, commenting that "The second of pianist George Shearing's full-length Latin albums once again finds his quintet...being joined by the exciting congas of Armando Peraza Most of the easy-listening melodies are from south of the border, but even the ones that aren't (such as "The Story of Love," "The Moon Was Yellow" and "It's Not for Me to Say") are given a Latinized treatment. This is nice (if rather safe) music...". [2]

Latin Lace and Shearing's 1959 album Latin Affair were featured in Tom Moon's 2008 book 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die . [4]

Track listing

  1. "The Story of Love" (Carlos Eleta Almarán) – 2:29
  2. "Serenata" (Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish) – 2:44
  3. "Tu, Mi Delirio" (César Portillo De La Luz) – 2:04
  4. "Cali Mambo" (Dante Varela) – 2:48
  5. "Rondo" (Carlos Federico) – 2:50
  6. "To the Ends of the Earth" (Joe Sherman, Noel Sherman) – 2:43
  7. "The Moon was Yellow (and the Night was Young)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Edgar Leslie) – 2:40
  8. "Wonder Struck" (Nick DiStefano) – 2:31
  9. "Sand in My Shoes" (Frank Loesser, Victor Schertzinger) – 2:07
  10. "Mambo Caribe" (Federico) – 2:58
  11. "It's Not for Me to Say" (Robert Allen, Al Stillman) – 1:48
  12. "Mambo No. 2" (Torrie Zito) – 2:43

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "George Shearing - Latin Lace at discogs". discogs.com. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 Latin Lace at AllMusic
  3. ↑ George Shearing (February 25, 2005). Lullaby of Birdland: The Autobiography of George Shearing. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN   978-0-8264-1724-4.
  4. ↑ Tom Moon (August 28, 2008). 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die . Workman Publishing Company. p.  991. ISBN   978-0-7611-5385-6.
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