After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! [UK] (2005)

About this title: By the year 2000, the golden oldie rotation of "Band of Gold" was the main thing keeping the memory of Freda Payne alive. Yet deep in the catalog of the classic jazz label Impulse lies this ambitious, largely successful recording of After the Lights Go Down Low, which shows just how diverse, and indeed brilliant, Freda Payne can be. The album is divided into half big-band tracks, and the other into small a small combo setting. The main presence in both cases is alto saxophonist Phil Woods, and this is one of the few recordings he doesn't turn into a football scrimmage for bebop yardage. There ... read more

Tracks:

1. After the Lights Go Down Low [Belmonte/Lovett/Whi]
2. Sweet Pumpkin [Bright]
3. Blue Piano [Ellington/Katz/Robe]
4. The Things We Love to Do [Clayton/Ward]
5. Awaken My Lovely One [Moody/Sherrell]
6. Sweet September [McGuffie/Phillips]
7. I Cried for You [Arnheim/Freed/Lyman]
8. 'Round Midnight [Monk/Williams/Hanig]
9. Out of This World [Arlen/Mercer]
10. Lonely Woman [Coleman/Guryan]
11. I Wish I Knew [Warren/Gordon]
12. It's Time [Rivelli/Roberts]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.