Violets for Your Furs (album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Violets for Your Furs
| type = live
| artist = Shirley Horn
| cover = shirlfurs.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1981
| recorded = July 10–12, 1981
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Vocal jazz
| length = 45:59
| label = SteepleChase Records
| producer = Scott Winther
| chronology = Shirley Horn
| prev_title = All Night Long
| prev_year = 1981
| next_title = The Garden of the Blues
| next_year = 1984
}}
Violets for Your Furs is a 1981 live album by Shirley Horn recorded at the North Sea Jazz Festival.{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=violets-for-your-furs-r166400|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=Allmusic|title= Violets for Your Furs|access-date=April 30, 2011}}
Reception
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| rev1 = Allmusic
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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "This lesser-known set is up to the same level as Shirley Horn's best-selling Verve sets. Recommended.".
Track listing
- "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:27
- "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) - 7:25
- "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) - 3:40
- "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Roger ("Ram") Ramirez, James Sherman) - 5:18
- "Violets for Your Furs" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 4:56
- "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) - 4:14
- "My Man" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) - 10:16
- "More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) - 4:18
- "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:25
Personnel
- Shirley Horn - piano, vocals
- Charles Ables - electric bass
- Billy Hart - drums
References
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Category:SteepleChase Records live albums