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In the Night is a 1958 album by the jazz pianist George Shearing and the singer Dakota Staton. A quintet accompanies the pair. Staton sings on six tracks; the rest are instrumentals.

Reception

The AllMusic review by John Bush awarded the album four and half stars and stated:”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.”

Track listing:
“From Rags to Richards” (George Shearing) – 3:15
“(I’m Left with the) Blues in My Heart” (Benny Carter, Irving Mills) – 2:58
“Pawn Ticket” (Ray Bryant) – 2:22
“In the Night” (Norman Mapp) – 2:03
“Easy” (Shearing) – 2:43
“I Hear Music” (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) – 2:32
“Señor Blues” (Horace Silver) – 3:49
“Confessin’ the Blues” (Walter Brown, Jay McShann) – 2:46
“Later” (Bryant) – 2:20
“The Thrill Is Gone” (Lew Brown, Ray Henderson) – 3:10
“The Late, Late Show” (Roy Alfred, Murray Berlin) – 2:34
“I’d Love to Make Love to You” (Bob Emmerich, Ruth Poll) – 2:44

Personnel:
George Shearing – piano
Dakota Staton – vocals on “(I’m Left with the) Blues in My Heart”, “In the Night”, “I Hear Music”, “Confessin’ the Blues”, “The Thrill Is Gone” and “I’d Love to Make Love to You”
Toots Thielemans – guitar
Emil Richards – vibraphone
Al McKibbon – double bass
Armando Peraza – bongos, conga
Percy Brice – drums, percussion

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Released: 1958
Recorded: 1958
Label: Capitol