Close Enough for Love (Shirley Horn album)

Close Enough for Love
Studio album by Shirley Horn
Released 1989
Recorded November 14–16, 1988 A&R Recording, New York City
Genre Vocal jazz
Length 52:54
Label Verve
Producer Ron Berinstein, Richard Seidel
Shirley Horn chronology

I Thought About You
(1987)		 Close Enough for Love
(1989)		 You Won't Forget Me
(1991)

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

Reception

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Allmusic [1]

Scott Yanow, in his review for Allmusic, 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

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Close Enough for Love". Allmusic. Retrieved October 3, 2011.