Sassy Swings Again

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Sassy Swings Again
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Studio album by
Released1967
RecordedJanuary 23–24, 1967
Genre Vocal jazz
Length31:05
Label Mercury
Producer Hal Mooney
Sarah Vaughan chronology
It's a Man's World
(1967)
Sassy Swings Again
(1967)
A Time in My Life
(1971)

Sassy Swings Again is a 1967 studio album by Sarah Vaughan. This was Vaughan's last album for Mercury Records, and her last studio recording for four years.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Allmusic review by Stephen Cook awarded the album four stars and said that Vaughan was in her "autumnal prime" and the album was "an often overlooked but essential session from that most divine of jazz chanteuses". [1]

Track listing

  1. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) - 1:50
  2. "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) - 2:39
  3. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (George Cory, Douglass Cross) - 4:06
  4. "S'posin'" (Paul Denniker, Andy Razaf) - 3:08
  5. "Every Day I Have the Blues" (Memphis Slim) - 4:22
  6. "I Want to Be Happy" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) - 2:19
  7. "All Alone" (Irving Berlin) - 2:19
  8. "The Sweetest Sounds" (Richard Rodgers) - 4:30
  9. "On the Other Side of the Tracks" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 3:35
  10. "I Had a Ball" (Jack Lawrence, Stan Freeman) - 2:17

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Cook, Stephen. "Sassy Swings Again". Allmusic . Retrieved February 3, 2011.