All Too Soon
Beauty And The Beat!
Peggy Lee & George Shearing
Recorded Live At The 1959 National Disc Jockey Convention In Miami, Florida
Produced by Dave Cavanaugh
Capitol Records T1219
From the back cover: Miami, May 29, 1959 – More than 2500 of the nation's top disc jockeys were on hand to cheer performances by Peggy Lee and George Shearing during the Friday night concert at the American Hotel. The occasion was the DJ's second annual convention, held in Miami this year. And the concert, staged in the hotel's huge ballroom as combined entertainment and recording session, treated the audience to the opportunity of hearing these two famous "names" in a first-rate appearance together.
Even after the intense pressure of frantic all-day rehearsals, the artists turned up for the session completely relaxed and in a mood to swing. Miss Lee, in a shimmering gown, was as beautiful to see as she was to hear. And she, George Shearing, and the other musicians, swung handsomely through tune after tune with a spontaneous beat that was felt by everyone in the vast room.
A troublesome PA system caused the audience some difficulty in hearing parts of the session, but their warm applause give a good indication of the response with which the professional DJ's greeted the performances. And fortunately, great sounds were being fed continuously to Capitol's engineers manning the recording equipment back stage, so that the recorded results escaped unscathed.
The Quintet played with spirit and taste in support of the famous Shearing piano lead – both in instrumental numbers and in the inventive vocal backings. And Peggy Lee sang as though she didn't have a care in the world other than her interpretations, which included quite a variety of ballad and uptempo stylings. For example, her treatment of I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City was sultry and insinuating. Ellington's beautiful All Too Soon emerged lush and dreamy, and she breezed delightfully through an "up" version of If Dreams Come True.
The instrumentals by George Shearing and the Quintet included an original penned for the occasion by conga drummer Armando Peraza, and entitled Mambo In Miami, Satin Doll and Isn't Romantic? showed off the free-swinging precision of the group.
Do I Love You
I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City
If Dreams Come True
All Too Soon
Mambo In Miami
Isn't It Romantic
Blue Prelude
You Came A Long Way From St. Louis
Always True To You In My Fashion
There'll Be Another Spring
Get Out Of Town
Satin Doll
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