After Hours (1961 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

Count Basie/Sarah Vaughan
(1961)		 After Hours
(1961)		 You're Mine You
(1961)

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.

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

  1. "My Favorite Things" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:46
  2. "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Cole Porter) – 2:26
  3. "Wonder Why" (Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn) – 4:21
  4. "You'd Be So Easy to Love" (Porter) – 2:12
  5. "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) – 3:52
  6. "Great Day" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 2:18
  7. "Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:13
  8. "If Love Is Good to Me" (Ray Evans, Fred Spielman) – 2:12
  9. "In a Sentimental Mood" (Ellington, Manny Kurtz, Mills) – 4:06
  10. "Vanity" (Bernard Bierman, Jack Manus, Guy Wood) – 4:19
  11. "Through the Years" (Edward Heyman, Youmans) – 3:09

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "After Hours". Allmusic. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
  2. ↑ Allmusic review