Lazy Afternoon (Regina Belle album)

Lazy Afternoon is Regina Belle's seventh studio release and eighth overall. The album is a collection of jazz, soul and pop standards. The album peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz chart and number 58 on the magazine's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.[2]

Lazy Afternoon
Studio album by Regina Belle
Released	July 13, 2004
Recorded	2004
Genre	R&B soul jazz
Label	Peak
Producer	George Duke
Regina Belle chronology
This Is Regina! (2001) Lazy Afternoon (2004) Love Forever Shines (2008)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

The lead single from the album was "For the Love of You". "Fly Me to the Moon" and "If I Ruled the World" each received some airplay but did not chart.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Version covered	Length
1.	"Lazy Afternoon"	John La Touche, Jerome Moross	Kaye Ballard	5:21
2.	"Fly Me to the Moon"	Bart Howard	Kaye Ballard	5:24
3.	"What Are You Afraid Of"	Jack Segal, Robert Wells[3]	Juliet Prowse[4]	4:49
4.	"If I Ruled the World"	Leslie Bricusse, Cyril Ornadel	Harry Secombe[5][6]	4:36
5.	"Corcovado"	Antônio Carlos Jobim	João Gilberto	5:56
6.	"There's a Love"	Regina Belle, George Duke	Original Composition[7]	4:05
7.	"Why Do People Fall in Love"	Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter	Dennis Edwards[8] featuring Thelma Houston[9]	4:53
8.	"For the Love of You"	Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley	The Isley Brothers	5:26
9.	"If I Should Lose You"	Regina Belle	Original Composition	4:34
10.	"Moanin'"	Jon Hendricks, Bobby Timmons	Lambert, Hendricks & Ross[10]	5:51
11.	"The Man I Love"	George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin	Marion Harris[11]	5:19
12.	"Try a Little Tenderness"	Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry Woods	Ray Noble Orchestra with Val Rosing	6:19

Note

• ”For the Love of You” is also based on / performed in medley with “The Love I Lost” by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes[7]

Personnel

• Regina Belle – vocal arranger, lead vocals
• Alex Al - electric bass
• Diana Moreira Booker - spoken word voices
• Oscar Brashear – flugelhorn, trumpet
• Gordon Campbell - drums
• Lenny Castro - percussion, tambourine
• Corine Duke - production coordinator
• George Duke – producer, arranger, Organ played by, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, acoustic piano, keyboards
• Ray Fuller - electric guitar
• Everette Harp - alto saxophone solo, tenor saxophone solo
• Christian McBride – electric bass, upright bass
• Dean Parks - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
• Darlene Perry - background vocals
• Lori Perry - background vocals
• Sharon Perry – background vocals, coloratura
• Erik Zobler - audio engineer, audio mixing

Charts

Chart (2004)	Peak position
US Top Contemporary Jazz (Billboard)	9
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)	58

References

1. Allmusic review
2. "Regina Belle album chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 3 Jan 2009.
3. Bennett, Tony. “What Are You Afraid Of”? Columbia. 1986. https://www.allmusic.com/song/what-are-you-afraid-of-mt0008331712
4. Prowse, Juliet. “Anyone Can Whistle...”. Columbia. 30 March 1964. http://www.45cat.com/record/443016
5. Secombe, Harry. “If I Ruled the World...”. YouTube: Ricardo-2266. 7 October 2011. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uSiednkXCzM
6. Secombe, Harry. “If I Ruled the World”. Second Hand Songs. 1963, 2003. https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/368975/originals#nav-entity
7. Ruotsalainen, Petteri. “Regina Belle: Lazy Afternoon”. Soul Express: Album of the Month. August 2004. http://www.soulexpress.net/belle.htm
8. Edwards, Dennis. “Why Do People Fall in Love”. Motown. 1985. https://www.allmusic.com/song/why-do-people-fall-in-love-mt0011790921
9. Dennis Edwards featuring Thelma Houston. “Why Do People...”. YouTube: W. Walter Watson. 1 October 2009. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r8GZlxl2D7I
10. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. “Moanin’”. Second Hand Songs. 1959, 2003. https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/141849
11. Harris, Marion. “The Man I Love”. Second Hand Songs. 1927, 2003. https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/40927/originals#nav-entity