You and the Night and the Music is a 1934 jazz standard composed by Arthur Schwartz with lyrics by Howard Dietz. It was introduced in the Broadway musical Revenge with Music, with Libby Holman delivering the original stage performance when the show opened on November 28, 1934; after an initial run it closed and then reopened on December 24, 1934 for a longer stay. The first recording, credited to Enric Madriguera & His Hotel Weylin Orchestra with Tony Sacco on the vocal refrain, was released in late 1934. Since then it has become a enduring standard with notable renditions by Frank Sinatra, Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Julie London, Jamie Cullum and Lennie Niehaus, among others - Bill Evans recorded a memorable version on the On Green Dolphin Street album. The song’s sensuous mood and lyric depict a moment of night, music and desire that may burn briefly and then fade when the night and the music die.
