Sassy Swings the Tivoli

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Sassy Swings the Tivoli
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Live album by
Released1963
RecordedJuly 18–21, 1963
Genre Vocal jazz
Length118:50
Label Mercury
Producer Quincy Jones
Sarah Vaughan chronology
Sarah Slightly Classical
(1963)
Sassy Swings the Tivoli
(1963)
Snowbound
(1963)
Professional ratings
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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]

Contents

Reception

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

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

Track listing

Disc one
  1. "I Feel Pretty" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) - 2:34
  2. "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) - 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" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 4:27
  10. "I Cried for You" (Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman) - 2:20
  11. "Poor Butterfly" (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell) - 3:12
  12. "I Could Write a Book" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:21
  13. "Time After Time" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 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" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 2:46
Disc two
  1. "I'll Be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) - 5:32
  2. "Maria" (Bernstein, 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" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) - 3:14
  8. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" - 2:01
  9. "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" - 4:06
  10. "I Cried for You" - 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" (Porter) - 2:33
  15. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) - 3:04*
  16. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) - 5:10

Personnel

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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. 1 2 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. 12 October 1963. p. 36. ISSN   0006-2510.