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Released
  
1965

Label
  
Prestige PR 7439

Producer
  
Cal Lampley

Length
  
41:21

Release date
  
1965

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
August 11 & 13, 1965 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Sylvia Is! (1965)
  
For Once in My Life (1967)

Sylvia Is! (1965)
  
The Tender Gender (1966)

Artists
  
Kenny Burrell, Sylvia Syms

Jazz albums
  
Syms by Sinatra, Kenny Burrell & John Colt, Interplay for 2 Trumpets, Blue Lights, Soul Call

Sylvia Is! is an album by vocalist Sylvia Syms with guitarist Kenny Burrell recorded in 1965 and released on the Prestige label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "Sylvia Syms was one of the top cabaret singers, uplifting a wide variety of interesting songs throughout her career... because Syms does not improvise, this CD reissue is more for fans of cabaret than for followers of jazz".

Track listing

  1. "As Long as I Live" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 3:04
  2. "More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) - 4:02
  3. "(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) - 3:12
  4. "How Insensitive" (Norman Gimbel, Antônio Carlos Jobim) - 3:51
  5. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin) - 3:43
  6. "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) - 3:34
  7. "Meditation" (Gimbel, Jobim) - 3:21
  8. "Cuando Te Fuiste de Mi" (Robert Lee Manrique) - 3:54
  9. "God Bless the Child" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.) - 2:55
  10. "Wild Is the Wind" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) - 3:04
  11. "You Are Always in My Heart" (Ernesto Lecuona, Kim Gannon) - 3:48
  12. "Brazil" (Ary Barroso, Bob Russell) - 2:53
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englrewood Cliffs, New Jersey on August 11, 1965 (tracks 1-3, 5, 6 & 9) - and August 13, 1965 (tracks 4, 7, 8 & 10-12)

    • Personnel

  • Sylvia Syms - vocals
  • Kenny Burrell - guitar
  • Milt Hinton - bass
  • Osie Johnson - drums
  • Bucky Pizzarelli - guitar (tracks 4, 7, 8 & 10-12)
  • Willie Rodriguez - percussion (tracks 4, 7, 8 & 10-12)

    • References

    Sylvia Is! Wikipedia
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