{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2017}} {{Infobox album | name = Latin Lace | type = album | artist = George Shearing | cover = Shearing Latin Lace.jpeg | alt = | released = March 1958 | recorded = 1958 | venue = | studio = Capitol (Hollywood) | genre = Jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz | length = | label = Capitol ST 1082 | producer = Dave Cavanaugh | chronology = George Shearing | prev_title = Burnished Brass | prev_year = 1958 | next_title = George Shearing on Stage! | next_year = 1958 }} '''''Latin Lace''''' is a 1958 album by jazz pianist George Shearing and his quintet.<ref name="Discogs">{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/George-Shearing-Quintet-Latin-Lace/release/1424763|title=George Shearing - Latin Lace at discogs|publisher=discogs.com|accessdate=January 26, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|class=album|id=latin-lace-mw0000891823|label=Latin Lace}}</ref>
''Latin Lace'' is one of a number of themed recordings with deliberately sexualised album covers that Shearing and his quintet produced in the 1950s; in his 2005 autobiography ''Lullaby of Birdland'', Shearing recalled that the liner notes for the album implored the listener to "add a little spice into your pad with these twelve hot little numbers!".<ref name="Shearing2005">{{cite book|author=George Shearing|title=Lullaby of Birdland: The Autobiography of George Shearing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3RUjRIB4ySkC|date=25 February 2005|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=978-0-8264-1724-4}}</ref>
==Reception== {{Album ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> }} Scott Yanow reviewed the album for Allmusic and awarded it three stars, commenting that "The second of pianist George Shearing's full-length Latin albums once again finds his quintet...being joined by the exciting congas of Armando Peraza Most of the easy-listening melodies are from south of the border, but even the ones that aren't (such as "The Story of Love," "The Moon Was Yellow" and "It's Not for Me to Say") are given a Latinized treatment. This is nice (if rather safe) music...".<ref name="Allmusic"/>
''Latin Lace'' and Shearing's 1959 album ''Latin Affair'' were featured in Tom Moon's 2008 book ''1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die''.<ref name="Moon2008">{{cite book|author=Tom Moon|title=1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die|url=https://archive.org/details/1000recordingsto00moon_0|url-access=registration|date=28 August 2008|publisher=Workman Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-7611-5385-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/1000recordingsto00moon_0/page/991 991]}}</ref>
==Track listing== # "The Story of Love" (Carlos Eleta Almarán) – 2:29 # "Serenata" (Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish) – 2:44 # "Tu, Mi Delirio" (César Portillo De La Luz) – 2:04 # "Cali Mambo" (Dante Varela) – 2:48 # "Rondo" (Carlos Federico) – 2:50 # "To the Ends of the Earth" (Joe Sherman, Noel Sherman) – 2:43 # "The Moon was Yellow (and the Night was Young)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Edgar Leslie) – 2:40 # "Wonder Struck" (Nick DiStefano) – 2:31 # "Sand in My Shoes" (Frank Loesser, Victor Schertzinger) – 2:07 # "Mambo Caribe" (Federico) – 2:58 # "It's Not for Me to Say" (Robert Allen, Al Stillman) – 1:48 # "Mambo No. 2" (Torrie Zito) – 2:43
==Personnel== *George Shearing – piano *Toots Thielemans – guitar *Al McKibbon – double bass *Armando Peraza – congas *Emil Richards – vibraphone *Percy Brice – drums *Dave Cavanaugh – producer
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Discogs master|179763}} {{George Shearing}} {{Authority control}}
Category:1958 albums Category:Albums produced by Dave Cavanaugh Category:Albums recorded at Capitol Studios Category:Capitol Records albums Category:George Shearing albums Category:1950s instrumental albums Category:Latin jazz albums