Live in Japan (Sarah Vaughan album)

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Live in Japan
Live in Japan cover
Live album by Sarah Vaughan
Released 1973
Recorded September 24, 1973
Genre Jazz
Length 61:02
Label Mercury Records
Professional reviews
Sarah Vaughan chronology
With Michel Legrand
(1972)		 After Hours at the London House
(1973)		 Send in the Clowns
(1974)

Live in Japan is a 1973 (see 1973 in music) live album by the American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan.

In 2006, the Library of Congress honored the album by adding it to the United States National Recording Registry.

[edit] Track listing

1. "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) 1:21
2. "Poor Butterfly" 5:04
3. "The Lamp Is Low" 1:37
4. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonius Monk) 5:37
5. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronnell) 3:00
6. "There Will Never Be Another You" 1:34
7. "Misty" 3:12
8. "Wave" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) 7:03
9. "Like Someone in Love" 2:29
10. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) 5:32
11. "All of Me" 1:56
12. "Where Do I Begin" (Love Story) 5:05
13. "Over The Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) 7:01
14. "I Could Write a Book" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) 2:15
15. "The Nearness Of You" 4:51
16. "I'll Remember April" 3:25
17. "Watch What Happens" 2:54
18. "Bye Bye Blackbird" 5:53

[edit] Personnel

Recorded at the Nakano Sun Plaza Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 24 September 1973:

[edit] Encore

At the end of the show Sarah took requests from the audience at to which song they would like to hear. After rejecting a few obvious choices someone suggested Bye Bye Blackbird. Sarah had never recorded this song before in her long career but was inspired and she and the band take the song with great joy and gusto.