Sylvia Is! is an album by vocalist Sylvia Syms with guitarist Kenny Burrell recorded in 1965 and released on the Prestige label.Prestige Records Discography accessed July 29, 2013
Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "Sylvia Syms was one of the top cabaret singers, uplifting a wide variety of interesting songs throughout her career... because Syms does not improvise, this CD reissue is more for fans of cabaret than for followers of jazz".Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed July 29, 2013
Track listing "As Long as I Live" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:04 "More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 4:02 "(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 3:12 "How Insensitive" (Norman Gimbel, Antônio Carlos Jobim) – 3:51 "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin) – 3:43 "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) – 3:34 "Meditation" (Gimbel, Jobim) – 3:21 "Cuando Te Fuiste de Mi" (Robert Lee Manrique) – 3:54 "God Bless the Child" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.) – 2:55 "Wild Is the Wind" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 3:04 "You Are Always in My Heart" (Ernesto Lecuona, Kim Gannon) – 3:48 "Brazil" (Ary Barroso, Bob Russell) – 2:53 Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englrewood Cliffs, New Jersey on August 11, 1965 (tracks 1–3, 5, 6 & 9) – and August 13, 1965 (tracks 4, 7, 8 & 10–12)
Personnel Sylvia Syms – vocals Kenny Burrell – guitar Milt Hinton – bass Osie Johnson – drums Bucky Pizzarelli – guitar (tracks 4, 7, 8 & 10–12) Willie Rodriguez – percussion (tracks 4, 7, 8 & 10–12)
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