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Released
  
1967

Length
  
31:05

Release date
  
1967

Genre
  
Vocal jazz

Recorded
  
January 23-24, 1967

Artist
  
Sarah Vaughan

Label
  
Mercury Records

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Sassy Swings Again (1967)
  
A Time in My Life (1971)

Similar
  
Sarah Vaughan albums, Vocal jazz albums

Sassy Swings Again is a 1967 studio album by Sarah Vaughan. This was Vaughan's last album for Mercury Records, and her last studio recording for four years.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Stephen Cook awarded the album four stars and said that Vaughan was in her "autumnal prime" and the album was "an often overlooked but essential session from that most divine of jazz chanteuses".

Track listing

  1. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) - 1:50
  2. "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) - 2:39
  3. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (George Cory, Douglass Cross) - 4:06
  4. "S'posin'" (Paul Denniker, Andy Razaf) - 3:08
  5. "Every Day I Have the Blues" (Memphis Slim) - 4:22
  6. "I Want to Be Happy" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) - 2:19
  7. "All Alone" (Irving Berlin) - 2:19
  8. "The Sweetest Sounds" (Richard Rodgers) - 4:30
  9. "On the Other Side of the Tracks" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 3:35
  10. "I Had a Ball" (Alan Jay Lerner) - 2:17

Personnel

  • Sarah Vaughan - vocals
  • Manny Albam - arranger
  • Thad Jones - arranger
  • Bob James - arranger, piano
  • J.J. Johnson - arranger, trombone
  • Malcolm Little - liner notes
  • Phil Woods - Reeds (Multiple), alto saxophone
  • Benny Golson - Reeds (Multiple), saxophone
  • Kai Winding - trombone
  • Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
  • Joe Newman
  • Charlie Shavers
  • Clark Terry
  • Songs

    1Sweet Georgia Brown1:50
    2Take the "A" Train2:41
    3(I Left My Heart) In San Francisco4:07

    References

    Sassy Swings Again Wikipedia