Sassy Swings the Tivoli

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Sassy Swings the Tivoli
Live album by
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 [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  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. ^ a b 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 .