George Shearing, Dakota Staton - In The Night (2021) [Hi-Res]

With its progressive-leaning jazz and modernist blues vocals, In the Night was the prototype for the piano-vocals collaboration record that George Shearing would remake with Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, and Nancy Wilson while at Capitol (and many others afterwards). In July 1957, just after Dakota Staton's immense success with "The Late, Late Show," Capitol recorded two of its biggest jazz stars together for what would turn out to be one of the finest teamings in either's career. Staton appears on every other song, lending her blend of post-bop vocal prowess and late-night melodrama to a set of well-chosen songs including "In the Night" and "I Hear Music." (Ironically, the version of "The Late, Late Show" heard here is an instrumental.) Shearing and Staton are joined by the pianist's group at the time, including Emil Richards on vibes, the splendid Toots Thielemans on guitar, and a few features for Latin percussionist Armando Peraza. The group's finest features are the opener, "From Rags to Richards," a fine Shearing original with excellent solos from Richards and Shearing, and Ray Bryant's "Pawn Ticket," with fine work from Thielemans and Richards.

Tracklist:
1 01. George Shearing - From Rags To Richards (Remastered) (03:15)
1 02. George Shearing - (I'm Left With The) Blues In My Heart (Remastered) (02:58)
1 03. George Shearing - Pawn Ticket (Remastered) (02:22)
1 04. George Shearing - In The Night (Remastered) (02:03)
1 05. George Shearing - Easy (Remastered) (02:43)
1 06. George Shearing - I Hear Music (Remastered) (02:32)
1 07. George Shearing - Señor Blues (Remastered) (03:49)
1 08. George Shearing - Confessin' The Blues (Remastered) (02:46)
1 09. George Shearing - Later (Remastered) (02:20)
1 10. George Shearing - The Thrill Is Gone (Remastered) (03:10)
1 11. George Shearing - The Late, Late Show (Remastered) (02:34)
1 12. George Shearing - I'd Love To Make Love to You (Remastered) (02:44)