Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris

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Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris
Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released	March 22, 1994
Recorded	June 5, 1962
Genre	Jazz Vocal
Length	71:18
Label	Reprise Records
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (4.5/5) link
Frank Sinatra chronology
Duets (1993)	Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris (1994)	The Song Is You (1994)

Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris is an 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 is only the third live album ever 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not an album Sinatra would've released at the time (at least not in this form), so it can be considered an important historical document.

Contents 1 Concert Background 2 Commentary 3 Track listing 4 Personnel 5 External links

[edit] Concert Background

After being snubbed by President Kennedy earlier that year, the Sinatra brain trust decided to take a tour of international capitals to benefit children's charities to polish his apparently tarnished image, which eventually went to thirty dates in two months, starting on April 15 in Mexico City and ending June 17 in Monte Carlo. The concert here was recorded on June 5, near the end of the tour.

Guitarist Al Viola stated in the liner notes of the album that, since the band was gathered on such short notice, they never rehearsed with Sinatra for the tour. Much of the band had already performed with him on previous albums with the same arrangements, so he never felt rehearsals were necessary.

[edit] Commentary

There are a few comments he makes between songs that could be considered risqué in today's modern politically-correct world. Such moments include when he introduces his standard "One for My Baby" to the French audience, explaining the young man in his song:

"It's obvious what his trouble is: Girls. Cherche la femme (He wants a girl). Which means in French Why don't you share the broad with me?"

He also remarks after the slave song "Ol' Man River": "That song is about Sammy Davis's people. And dis is a song about my people," moving into "The Lady Is A Tramp".

He jokes through some of his vocal issues, commenting once to "avoid the pre-show onion soup" and another time that he's "gotta stop sleepin' in the park."

[edit] Track listing

1. "Introduction" (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" (J. Blackburn, K. Suessdorf) – 3:33
6. "Without a Song" (Vincent Youmans, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu) – 2:36
7. "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer) – 2:35
8. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter) – 2:49
9. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) – 2:58
10. "The Second Time Around" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:41
11. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Johnny Mercer, R. Whiting) – 1:37
12. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:49
13. "In the Still of the Night" (Cole Porter) – 3:18
14. "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. Harburg) – 2:30
15. "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You" (Page Cavanaugh, Morgan, Stock) – 3:53
16. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 1:48
17. "Chicago" (Fred Fisher) – 2:07
18. "Night and Day" (Cole Porter) – 4:19
19. "I Could Have Danced All Night" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 2:43
20. "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 5:45
21. "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:15
22. "Ol' Man River" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:33
23. "The Lady Is A Tramp" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:44
24. "I Love Paris" (Cole Porter) – 1:39
25. "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:14
26. "Come Fly With Me" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:00

[edit] Personnel

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

[edit] External links