Close Enough for Love (Shirley Horn album)

Close Enough for Love is a 1989 studio album by Shirley Horn, her second album for Verve Records. ^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album four and a half stars and said that "Performing with her usual trio...and guest tenor Buck Hill on five of the 13 tracks, Horn is heard in definitive form throughout these studio sessions". ^[1]

Track listing

1. "A Beautiful Friendship" (Donald Kahn, Stanley Styne) – 3:42
2. "I Got Lost in His Arms" (Irving Berlin) – 4:15
3. "Baby, Baby All the Time" (Bobby Troup) – 2:40
4. "Close Enough for Love" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Williams) – 4:44
5. "This Can't Be Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:45
6. "I Wanna Be Loved" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Billy Rose) – 4:29
7. "Come Fly with Me" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 4:00
8. "Once I Loved (O Amor en Paz)" (Vinícius de Moraes, Ray Gilbert, Antonio Carlos Jobim) – 6:50
9. "But Beautiful" (Johnny Burke, Van Heusen) – 4:32
10. "Get Out of Town" (Cole Porter) – 2:42
11. "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) – 7:23
12. "It Could Happen to You" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 2:48
13. "So I Love You" (Carroll Coates) – 3:15

Personnel

Performance

• Shirley Horn – piano, vocals
• Buck Hill - tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 6-7, 11-12)
• Charles Ables – double bass
• Steve Williams – drums, percussion

Production

• Seth Rothstein – production manager
• Mitchell Kanner – art direction
• Blaise Sires – assistant engineer
• Dave Baker – engineer
• Ron Berinstein – executive producer
• Joel E. Siegel – liner notes
• Joe Brescio – mastering
• David Conrad – photography
• Jeffrey Krein
• Richard Seidel – producer
• Pierre M. Sprey – technical assistance

References