Sylvia Is! is an album by vocalist Sylvia Syms with guitarist Kenny Burrell recorded in 1965 and released on the Prestige label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

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".[2]

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

References

  1. ^ Prestige Records Discography accessed July 29, 2013
  2. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed July 29, 2013
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Is!
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