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After Hours 
| 100% Recommended by our customers. Label: Blue Note Records Catalog: Music Release date: 1997-03-11 Media: Audio CD discs number: 1 Ean: 0724385546822 Upc: 724385546822  Tip: compare prices with similar music CDsArtist:
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| Album tracks: (11) |
 My Favorite Things Ev'ry Time we Say Goodbye Wonder Why Easy To Love | Sophisticated Lady Great Day Ill Wind If Love is Good to Me | In a Sentimental Mood Vanity Through the Years |
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| Newly remixed for greatly improved sound, this intimate 1961 session with Sarah backed only by Mundell Lowe's guitar and George Duvivier's bass is one of the finest musical statements of her career. |
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 Written on March 12, 2002 Summary: ...only if you already own her other million or so albums... ...sarah smokes it up with 'in a sentimental mood'...i absolutely adore that song...i love it folk, fareal...but that feels like the only song on here that she felt compelled to put any energy into...the rest of this disc feels like maybe it was later for her than she wanted it to be...(maybe she needed a nap!)... i know this was MEANT to feel like some lazy-lounge type of thing...but it didnt hafta be this lazy...this is my fifth sarah vaughn cd, so when i wanna hear some sarah, those will get played first... Written on July 20, 2001 Summary: A wonderful lyric masterpiece A wonderful lyric masterpiece. It is just Ms. Vaughn, a bass and a guitar spinning out some simple ballads, but oh how they spin them out. Ms. Vaughn can sign. Her voice is as smooth as silk. It gently drapes over you. Yet she simulateously displays tremendous virtuosity with unexpected inflections and subtle rhythm variations done so seemlessly that you have to think to realize what she has done. But it is better not to think and instead just let her voice seep down into your subconsious. She does it all in harmony with her accompanists and never overpowering them. This is something that you can enjoy on the first listening and continue to enjoy thereafter. This album is like a glass of fine wine: Soft and smooth, playful, simple on the surface by imbued with underlying complexity. This is something to savor. Have a nightcap with Ms. Vaughn. Written on March 16, 2001 Summary: Less is more These sessions, recorded in 1961, have spare arrangements for guitar (Mundell Lowe), bass (George DuVivier) and voice. They are almost all slow, sinuous ballads, except for Cole Porter's "Easy to Love," that swings with its walking bass, and "Great Day," with its hyperkinetic bass line and gymnastic improvisation by the great Miss Sarah (contrast this version with the big band sound on the "Benny Carter Sessions," and I think you will feel this version is more virtuosic and swings more, even with only two accompanying musicians.) The album does have a quiet "after hours" feel. It's 2:00 am, just you and your honey are left in the place, and Sarah is staying late just to sing to you. The really wonderful thing about these arrangements is how they allow you to just luxuriate in the peerless, sensuous pleasure of Sarah Vaughan's voice. She is given great freedom here to display her phrasing, dynamic control and nuance. Her rhythmic interplay with the guitar and bass is intricate, subtle, effortless, masterful. I didn't care for the version of "My Favorite Things." It's not just that I'm hopelessly spoiled for life on this one by Coltrane's renditions. This version just sounded kind of straight and tedious to me, with no real interest to the phrasing or rhythmic treatment. But even that song features Sarah's matchless voice. And all the other songs are gems. I think this is the most intimate of Sarah Vaughan's records. Its subtlety rewards careful listening. Play it at home with your honey. After hours. Written on January 7, 2001 Summary: If you're going to get one Vaughan CD, get this one quickly This is my favorite Sarah Vaughan CD. I love it so much that I know the keys of evey song before the one before it has finished. I really thought I could never like the song "My Favorite Things" after hearing a haughty nun sing it in "The Sound of Music". But Sass, as she invearible does, swings it and makes her self seem the lady of cool again. "Every Time We Say Goodbye" is just lovely, I always wonder how she hits the right note to start acoustically! "I Wonder Why" has since become my favorite tune and her variations on the tune are marvellous. The mellow sound of the guitar is also to be comended -OOOh I really shouldn't write something on all of them.... "Great Day" is fantastic and the bassist is just amazing. For some reason there's always one song I don't like on her albums, and in this case it's the last one; "Through the Years" because of her rather allarming virbrato. That really is, for me, the only fault of the album however. I'm sorry, who was it that said Ella was better than Vaughan? In my opinion they are so different you can't compare the two, but both should reign together as the queens of jazz. Written on August 31, 2000 Summary: Sassy Breaks Your Heart I can't think of another album or CD where Sassy the Divine One sounds so relaxed and low-key, she is simply in remarkable form. She's backed by just a guitar and bass so it's a fairly relaxed affair. Perhaps she had been told to "cool it" by producers for going over the top on her previous recordings because this is a big departure for her. Her singing is simply elegant, personable and heartbreakingly moving on almost all the songs. My favorites were the lesser-known songs "I Wonder Why" "Vanity" and "Through the Years" where her voice takes center stage but never overwhelms her surroundings or accompanists. She simply breaks your heart on these songs; her singing is tender, moving, and sincere. This CD ranks among the top 2 or 3 recordings I have of Sarah, and I own over 50 of her CDs and albums!! |
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| Our price | $10.99 | $14.99 | $11.98 | $8.99 | $11.98 | $10.99 |
| List price | $11.98 | $18.98 | $11.98 | $11.98 | $11.98 | $11.98 |
| Lowest used price | $7.47 | $7.62 | $7.48 | $4.89 | $5.93 | $5.94 |
| Lowest new price | $8.09 | $9.99 | $7.66 | $7.84 | $7.49 | $6.91 |
| Collectible price | $11.98 | $18.98 | - | $25.25 | - | $49.95 |
| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 1997-03-11 | 2000-02-29 | 1993-01-26 | 1992-11-17 | 2006-10-03 | 1990-08-31 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Format | - | Extra tracks, Original recording remastered | - | - | - | - |
| Ean | 0724385546822 | 7314543305274 | 0077779844524 | 0731451407222 | 0094637133927 | 0042282489128 |
| Upc | 724385546822 | 731454330527 | 077779844524 | 731451407222 | 094637133927 | 042282489128 |
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