Sassy Swings the Tivoli

Sassy Swings the Tivoli
Live album by Sarah Vaughan
Released	1963
Recorded	July 18–21, 1963
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	118:50
Label	Mercury
Producer	Quincy Jones
Sarah Vaughan chronology
Sarah Slightly Classical (1963) Sassy Swings the Tivoli (1963) Snowbound (1963)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

Sassy Swings the Tivoli is a 1963 live album by American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan and her trio, produced by Quincy Jones. ^[4] The performances were recorded in the concert hall of the Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, over four days in July 1963. ^[5]

Reception

The initial Billboard review from October 12, 1963 commented that Vaughan was "really swinging on this album", and described it as a "must for Sassy's fans" with "radiation on both sides of the footlights". ^[6]

Scott Yanow on AllMusic gave the album four and a half stars out of five and commented that the album was a "gem" and that this "wonderful live session" was "one of her very best of the 1960s". ^[4]

Track listing

Disc one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Feel Pretty"	Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim	2:34
2.	"Misty"	Erroll Garner, Johnny Burke	5:56
3.	"What Is This Thing Called Love?"	Cole Porter	2:04
4.	"Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)"	Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman	5:56
5.	"Sometimes I'm Happy"	Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey, Vincent Youmans	4:30
6.	"Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?"	Hughie Cannon	3:14
7.	"Tenderly"	Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence	2:33
8.	"Sassy's Blues"	Quincy Jones, Sarah Vaughan	5:40
9.	"Polka Dots and Moonbeams"	Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke	4:27
10.	"I Cried for You"	Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman	2:20
11.	"Poor Butterfly"	Raymond Hubbell, John Golden	3:12
12.	"I Could Write a Book"	Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart	2:21
13.	"Time After Time"	Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn	4:56
14.	"All of Me"	Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons	1:43
15.	"I Hadn't Anyone Till You"	Ray Noble	3:17
16.	"I Can't Give You Anything But Love"	Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields	2:46
Total length:			57:29

Disc two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I'll Be Seeing You"	Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal	5:32
2.	"Maria"	Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim	5:51
3.	"Day In, Day Out"	Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer	2:15
4.	"Fly Me to the Moon"	Bart Howard	4:39
5.	"Baubles, Bangles and Beads"	George Forrest, Robert C. Wright	3:07
6.	"The Lady's in Love with You"	Burton Lane, Frank Loesser	2:15
7.	"Honeysuckle Rose"	Fats Waller, Andy Razaf	3:14
8.	"What Is This Thing Called Love?"	Cole Porter	2:01
9.	"Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)"	Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman	4:06
10.	"I Cried for You"	Gus Arnheim, Abe Lyman, Arthur Freed	2:19
11.	"The More I See You"	Mack Gordon, Harry Warren	5:26
12.	"Say It Isn't So"	Irving Berlin	5:11
13.	"Black Coffee"	Sonny Burke, Paul Francis Webster	4:40
14.	"Just One of Those Things"	Cole Porter	2:33
15.	"On Green Dolphin Street"	Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington	3:04
16.	"Over the Rainbow"	Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg	5:10
Total length:			61:23

Personnel

• Sarah Vaughan – vocals
• Kirk Stuart – piano, vocals on "Misty" (disc 1, track 2)
• Charles Williams – double bass
• George Hughes – drums
• Quincy Jones – producer

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 199. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1444. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
4. Sassy Swings the Tivoli at AllMusic
5. Liner notes, Emarcy CD 832 788 2, released 1987
6. "Album Reviews: Spotlight Pick". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. October 12, 1963. p. 36. ISSN   0006-2510.