Violets for Your Furs (album)

Violets for Your Furs
Live album by Shirley Horn
Released 1981
Recorded July 10-12, 1981
Genre Vocal jazz
Length 45:59
Label SteepleChase Records
Producer Scott Winther
Shirley Horn chronology
A Lazy Afternoon
(1978)		 Violets for Your Furs
(1981)		 All Night Long
(1981)

Violets for Your Furs is a 1981 live album by Shirley Horn recorded at the North Sea Jazz Festival.[1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album four stars and said "This lesser-known set is up to the same level as Shirley Horn's best-selling Verve sets. Recommended.".[1]

Track listing

  1. "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:27
  2. "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) - 7:25
  3. "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) - 3:40
  4. "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Roger ("Ram") Ramirez, James Sherman) - 5:18
  5. "Violets for Your Furs" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 4:56
  6. "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) - 4:14
  7. "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) - 10:16
  8. "More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) - 4:18
  9. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:25

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b c "Violets for Your Furs". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/violets-for-your-furs-r166400. Retrieved April 30, 2011.