All the Sad Young Men (album)

Reception

Richard S. Ginell reviewed the reissue of the album for Allmusic and wrote that on the album O'Day was "served with a collection of brilliant, difficult big-band charts, courtesy of a 27-year-old emerging master named Gary McFarland who mixed instrumental voices and tempo changes in querulous, turbulent combinations" and highlighted "You Came a Long Way From St. Louis" as being "enlivened with sprouting shafts of outlaw muted brass and reeds". Ginell wrote that it was "...a tribute to O'Day's abilities that she makes it all sound easy, exhibiting a freedom in phrasing and improvising that is extraordinary even for her".

Track listing

1. "Boogie Blues" (Remo Biondi, Gene Krupa) – 3:44
2. "You Came a Long Way from St. Louis" (John Benson Brooks, Bob Russell) – 4:12
3. "I Want to Sing a Song" (Margo Guryan, Gary McFarland) – 2:42
4. "A Woman Alone with the Blues" (Willard Robison) – 3:18
5. "The Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 4:23
6. "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Russell) – 4:08
7. "One More Mile" (McFarland, Bobby Paxton) – 2:39
8. "Night Bird" – 3:56
9. "Up State" (McFarland) – 2:30
10. "Senor Blues" (Horace Silver) – 2:45

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Production