Sweet & Slow

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Sweet & Slow
Carol Sloane--Sweet & Slow.jpg
Studio album by
Carol Sloane
ReleasedJuly 1993 (1993-07)
RecordedApril 1993 (1993-04)
StudioPenny Lane Studios
Genre Jazz [1]
Label Concord Jazz
Producer
Carol Sloane chronology
Heart's Desire
(1992)		Sweet & Slow
(1993)		 When I Look in Your Eyes
(1994)

Sweet & Slow is a studio album by American singer, Carol Sloane. It was released in July 1993 by Concord Jazz and contained 12 tracks of cover tunes. It was Sloane's second album for Concord and received critical acclaim from AllMusic and the Sun Sentinel .

Contents

Background, recording and content

Carol Sloane found jazz success after performing at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1961, which led to two albums for Columbia Records and more opportunities in the genre. However, jazz declined in popularity in the US and Sloane recorded Japan for nearly a decade along with finding odd jobs outside of music to make ends meet. In the early 1990s, Sloane performed at the Concord-Fujitsu Festival, where she was approached by label-head, Carl Jefferson. He invited her to join the Concord Jazz roster, which she accepted and six albums of her music were released during the 1990s. [2] Sweet & Slow was Sloane's second album with the label [3] and was recorded in April 1993. Sessions were held at Penny Lane Studios in New York City and was co-produced by Jefferson and John Burk. [4] The project consisted of 12 songs that were covers, including a tribute to Lee Wiley on "Woman's Intuition" and Hoagy Carmichael's "One Morning in May". [1]

Release and critical reception

Sweet and Slow was released by Concord Jazz in July 1993 and was originally offered as a compact disc (CD). [4] The album garnered positive reception from critics after its release. The Florida Sun-Sentinel praised Sloane's voice, calling it "sultry and sophisticated". In addition, the newspaper also found that she gave new "meaning" and "purpose" to the recordings on the collection. [5] Scott Yanow of AllMusic rated the album 4.5 out of 5 stars, recommending the collection to listeners while also calling her Concord albums "consistently enjoyable". [1] Comparing it to her other Concord albums, biographer, Will Friedwald, praised Sweet & Slow as being "the most consistently excellent and rewarding work of Sloane's career". [2]

Track listing

Sweet & Slow [4]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Sometime Ago" Sergio Mihanovich 3:32
2."One Morning in May"
3:46
3."I'm Way Ahead of the Game"
4:28
4."I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"
5:26
5."Until I Met You"
4:14
6."Sweet and Slow"
5:51
7."You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me"
  • Dubin
  • Warren
3:47
8."A Woman's Intuition"
3:37
9."Baubles, Bangles, & Beads"
4:52
10."An Older Man Is Like an Elegant Wine"Lee Wing5:06
11."If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight"
3:11
12."I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good"
6:53

Personnel

All credits are adapted from the liner notes of Sweet & Slow. [4]

Release history

Release history and formats for Sweet & Slow
RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
VariousJuly 1993Compact disc (CD)Concord Jazz [4]
circa 2020
  • Music download
  • streaming
 [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Yanow, Scott. "Sweet & Slow: Carol Sloane: Album". AllMusic . Retrieved 28 January 2026.
  2. 1 2 Will Friedwald (2010). A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers. Knopf Doubleday. p. 428. ISBN   9780307379894.
  3. ↑ Kohlhaase, Bill (July 23, 1993). "'Just Follow the Bouncing Ball' : Jazz: After a series of ups and downs, singer Carol Sloane's career is holding steady at the top again" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 28 January 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Sloane, Carol (July 1993). "Sweet & Slow (disc information)". Concord Jazz . US. CCD-4564 (CD).
  5. ↑ "Jazz in Decline? Not with This Good Music" . Sun Sentinel . December 26, 1993. Retrieved 28 January 2026.
  6. ↑ "Sweet & Slow - Album by Carol Sloane". Apple Music . Retrieved 28 January 2026.
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