Sassy Swings the Tivoli

Sassy Swings the Tivoli is a 1963 live album by American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan and her trio, produced by Quincy Jones.^[4] The performances were recorded in the concert hall of the Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, over four days in July 1963.^[5]

Sassy Swings the Tivoli
Live album by Sarah Vaughan
Released	1963
Recorded	July 18–21, 1963
Genre	Vocal jazz
Length	118:50
Label	Mercury
Producer	Quincy Jones
Sarah Vaughan chronology
Sarah Slightly Classical (1963) Sassy Swings the Tivoli (1963) Snowbound (1963)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

Reception

The initial Billboard review from October 12, 1963 commented Vaughan was "really swinging on this album", and described it as a "must for Sassy's fans" and that there was "radiation on both sides of the footlights".^[6]

Scott Yanow on Allmusic.com gave the album four and a half stars out of five and commented that the album was a "gem" that this "wonderful live session" was "one of her very best of the 1960s".^[4]

Track listing

Disc one

1. "I Feel Pretty" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) - 2:34
2. "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) - 5:56
3. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Cole Porter) - 2:04
4. "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) - 5:56
5. "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey, Vincent Youmans) - 4:30
6. "Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?" (Hughie Cannon) - 3:14
7. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) - 2:33
8. "Sassy's Blues" (Quincy Jones, Sarah Vaughan) - 5:40
9. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 4:27
10. "I Cried for You" (Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lyman) - 2:20
11. "Poor Butterfly" (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell) - 3:12
12. "I Could Write a Book" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:21
13. "Time After Time" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 4:56
14. "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) - 1:43
15. "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" (Ray Noble) - 3:17
16. "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 2:46

Disc two

1. "I'll Be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) - 5:32
2. "Maria" (Bernstein, Sondheim) - 5:51
3. "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) - 2:15
4. "Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) - 4:39
5. "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" (George Forrest, Robert C. Wright) - 3:07
6. "The Lady's in Love With You" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) - 2:15
7. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) - 3:14
8. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" - 2:01
9. "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" - 4:06
10. "I Cried for You" - 2:19
11. "The More I See You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) - 5:26
12. "Say It Isn't So" (Irving Berlin) - 5:11
13. "Black Coffee" (Sonny Burke, Paul Francis Webster) - 4:40
14. "Just One of Those Things" (Porter) - 2:33
15. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) - 3:04*
16. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) - 5:10

Personnel

• Sarah Vaughan - vocals
• Kirk Stuart - piano, vocals on "Misty"
• Charles Williams - double bass
• George Hughes - drums
• Quincy Jones - producer

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 199. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1444. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
4. Sassy Swings the Tivoli at AllMusic
5. Liner notes, Emarcy CD 832 788 2, released 1987
6. "Album Reviews: Spotlight Pick". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 12 October 1963. p. 36. ISSN 0006-2510.