After Hours
AMG AllMusic Guide: Pop Albums:
Top
After Hours [Columbia]
- Artist: Sarah Vaughan
- Rating:
- Release Date: 1961 06
- Total Time: 35:22
- Genre: Vocal Music
Review
From 1961-1962, Sarah Vaughan recorded two albums while accompanied by just guitar and bass. Her 1962 outing for the obscure Reactivation label (with guitarist Barney Kessel and bassist Joe Comfort) remains out of print, but her earlier set with guitarist Mundell Lowe and bassist George Duvivier was finally reissued in 1997, along with one previously unreleased selection ("Through the Years") taken from a slightly earlier exploratory session with the same players. Surprisingly, Lowe only has one solo, so the emphasis throughout is exclusively on Sassy's magnificent voice. The program mostly sticks to ballads, with a couple of exceptions (most notably "Great Day"), and is a quiet and intimate affair, with Vaughan more subtle than she sometimes was. Despite a lightweight version of "My Favorite Things" that will not remind listeners of John Coltrane, this is an excellent if brief set (34-and-a-half minutes) with some fine jazz singing. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi| After Hours [Columbia Special Products] (1995 Album by Sarah Vaughan) | |
| After Hours [Deluxe Edition] (2012 Album by Glenn Frey) |
Wikipedia on Answers.com:
Top
After Hours (Sarah Vaughan album)
| After Hours | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
||||
| Studio album by Sarah Vaughan | ||||
| Released | 1961 | |||
| Recorded | July 18, 1961, RKO-Pathe Studio, New York City | |||
| Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
| Length | 35:22 | |||
| Label | Roulette | |||
| Producer | Michael Cuscuna, Teddy Reig | |||
| Sarah Vaughan chronology | ||||
|
||||
After Hours is a 1961 studio album by American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan.[1]
This was Vaughan's first album with just guitar and double bass accompaniment, it was followed by 1963's Sarah + 2 in a similar vein.
|
Contents
|
Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |  [1] |
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded After Hours three stars and said that "the emphasis throughout is exclusively on Sassy's magnificent voice. The program mostly sticks to ballads, with a couple of exceptions...and is a quiet and intimate affair, with Vaughan more subtle than she sometimes was. Despite a lightweight version of "My Favorite Things" that will not remind listeners of John Coltrane, this is an excellent if brief set (34-and-a-half minutes) with some fine jazz singing".[1]
Track listing
- "My Favourite Things" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:46
- "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Cole Porter) – 2:26
- "Wonder Why" (Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn) – 4:21
- "You'd Be So Easy to Love" (Porter) – 2:12
- "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) – 3:52
- "Great Day" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 2:18
- "Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:13
- "If Love Is Good to Me" (Ray Evans, Fred Spielman) – 2:12
- "In a Sentimental Mood" (Ellington, Manny Kurtz, Mills) – 4:06
- "Vanity" (Bernard Bierman, Jack Manus, Guy Wood) – 4:19
- "Through the Years" (Edward Heyman, Youmans) – 3:09
Personnel
References
- ^ a b c "After Hours". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/after-hours-columbia-r377433. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
- ^ Allmusic review
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
AMG AllMusic Guide: Pop Albums
Copyright © 2012 All Media Guide, LLC. Content provided by All Music Guide ®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC. All rights reserved.
Read more
Mentioned in
Love Is the Answer/Listening in the After-Hours
(2002 Album by Lita Roza)
Pee Wee Crayton
(1959 Album by Pee Wee Crayton)
» More