Frank Sinatra and Sextet - Live in Paris [MFSL 180g DoLP] 24-bit/96kHz and redbook format

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If you've cringed at the quality of recent Sinatra projects, this 1962 session will remind you of his glorious past. The 26 cuts include many Sinatra signature pieces ("I've Got You Under My Skin," "The Second Time Around," "Night And Day," "Moonlight In Vermont") with backing from an intimate small band that provides lush, supportive frameworks around which Sinatra can build and create his inimitable charm. - Ron Wynn/AMG

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Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris is a live album by American singer Frank Sinatra, recorded in 1962 but released in 1994 by Reprise Records.

An earlier, non-commercial edition of this concert was released in late 1992, albeit with two fewer songs than the twenty five in this set. It was only the third live album ever officially released of Sinatra, after 1966's Sinatra at the Sands and 1974's The Main Event – Live.

It was his first concert he ever performed in Paris, France. The album is unique in that it is an entire unedited concert of Sinatra. Although certainly considered one of the greatest performers of the twentieth century, his weaknesses can be evident in the performance, including dropping words in songs, stumbling through a few lines, and clearing his throat. It's not an album Sinatra would've released at the time (at least not in this form), so it can be considered an important historical document.




Track listing


Side A

1. Introduction by Charles Aznavour – 1:04
2. "Goody Goody" (Matty Malneck, Johnny Mercer) – 1:11
3. "Imagination" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:25
4. "At Long Last Love" (Cole Porter) – 2:12
5. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 3:33
6. "Without a Song" (Vincent Youmans, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu) – 2:36
7. "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom, Mercer) – 2:35
8. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) – 2:49

Side B

1. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Porter) – 2:58
2. "The Second Time Around" (Sammy Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:41
3. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Mercer, Richard A. Whiting) – 1:37
4. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:49
5. "In the Still of the Night" (Porter) – 3:18
6. "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. Harburg) – 2:30
7. "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You" (Page Cavanaugh, Russ Morgan, Larry Stock) – 3:53

Side C

1. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 1:48
2. "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" (Fred Fisher) – 2:07
3. "Night and Day" (Porter) – 4:19
4. "I Could Have Danced All Night" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 2:43
5. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Harold Arlen, Mercer) – 5:45

Side D

1. "A Foggy Day" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:15
2. "Ol' Man River" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:33
3. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:44
4. "I Love Paris" (Porter) – 1:39
5. "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Van Heusen) – 2:14
6. "Come Fly with Me" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:00

Personnel

* Frank Sinatra - Vocals
* Bill Miller - Piano
* Al Viola - Guitar
* Ralph Peña - Bass
* Irv Cottler - Drums
* Emil Richards - Vibraphone
* Harry Klee - Alto Saxophone, Flute