View source for Send In the Clowns (1981 Sarah Vaughan album)

{{Infobox album
| name       = Send in the Clowns
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Sarah Vaughan]]
| cover      = Vaughan Basie Clowns.jpeg
| alt        =
| released   = 1981
| recorded   = February 16–17, May 16, 1981
| venue      =
| studio     = Group IV Recording Studio, [[Hollywood, California]]
| genre      = [[Vocal jazz]]
| length     = 39:51
| label      = [[Pablo Records|Pablo Today]]
| producer   = [[Norman Granz]]
| prev_title = [[Songs of the Beatles]]
| prev_year  = 1981
| next_title = [[Crazy and Mixed Up]]
| next_year  = 1982
}}
'''''Send in the Clowns''''' is a 1981 [[studio album]] by [[Sarah Vaughan]], accompanied by the [[Count Basie Orchestra]].<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r149446|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|title=Send in the Clowns|access-date=July 13, 2011}}</ref>
This was Vaughan's third album with the Count Basie Orchestra, her previous two were ''[[No Count Sarah]]'' (1958) and ''[[Count Basie/Sarah Vaughan]]'' (1961).
==Reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/>
| rev2 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide]]''
| rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book
|editor-last=Swenson
|editor-first=J.
| year = 1985
| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
|url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen
|url-access=registration
| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone
| location = USA
| isbn = 0-394-72643-X
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/199 199]
}}</ref>
}}
The [[AllMusic]] review by [[Scott Yanow]] said that it was an "enjoyable date...the arrangements by Sammy Nestico and Allyn Ferguson unfortunately do not leave much room for any of the Basie sidemen to solo, but Sassy is in superb form".<ref name="Allmusic"/>
== Track listing ==
# "[[I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues]]" ([[Harold Arlen]], [[Ted Koehler]]) - 5:04
# "[[Just Friends (John Klenner and Sam M. Lewis song)|Just Friends]]" ([[John Klenner]], [[Sam M. Lewis]]) - 3:23
# "[[If You Could See Me Now (1946 song)|If You Could See Me Now]]" ([[Tadd Dameron]], [[Carl Sigman]]) - 4:50
# "[[Ill Wind (Arlen-Koehler song)|Ill Wind]]" (Arlen, Koehler) - 4:01
# "[[When Your Lover Has Gone]]" ([[Einar Aaron Swan]]) - 2:38
# "[[Send in the Clowns]]" ([[Stephen Sondheim]]) - 6:22
# "[[I Hadn't Anyone Till You]]" ([[Ray Noble (musician)|Ray Noble]]) - 4:08
# "[[All the Things You Are]]" ([[Oscar Hammerstein II]], [[Jerome Kern]]) - 3:50
# "Indian Summer" ([[Al Dubin]], [[Victor Herbert]]) - 3:31
# "[[From This Moment On (Cole Porter song)|From This Moment On]]" ([[Cole Porter]]) - 2:32
== Personnel ==
* Sarah Vaughan - [[singing|vocals]]
* [[Andy Simpkins]] - [[double bass]]
* [[George Gaffney]] - [[piano]]
* [[Sammy Nestico]], [[Allyn Ferguson]] - [[Arrangement|arranger]]
* The [[Count Basie Orchestra]]:
* [[Bobby Plater]], [[Danny Turner]] - [[alto saxophone]]
* [[Eric Dixon (musician)|Eric Dixon]], [[Kenny Hing]] - [[tenor saxophone]]
* [[Johnny Williams (saxophonist)|Johnny Williams]] - [[baritone saxophone]]
* [[Sonny Cohn]], [[Willie Cook]], [[Frank Szabo]], [[Bob Summers]], [[Dale Carley]] - [[trumpet]]
* [[Mitchell "Bootie" Wood]], [[Dennis Wilson (jazz musician)|Dennis Wilson]], [[Grover Mitchell]] - [[trombone]]
* [[Bill Hughes (musician)|Bill Hughes]] - [[bass trombone]]
* [[Freddie Green]]  - [[guitar]]
* [[Harold Jones (drummer)|Harold Jones]] - [[drum kit|drums]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Sarah Vaughan}}
{{Count Basie Orchestra}}
{{Authority control}}
[[Category:1981 albums]]
[[Category:Sarah Vaughan albums]]
[[Category:Count Basie Orchestra albums]]
[[Category:Pablo Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums arranged by Sammy Nestico]]
[[Category:Albums arranged by Allyn Ferguson]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Norman Granz]]