One of the many reasons I adore Jonesy's Jukebox on Indie 103.1 in LA is his ability to play anything and get away with it. Thank you, Steve for introducing me to PJ Proby, The Isley Brothers, The Small Faces, The Stranglers and my new favorite singer, Sarah Vaughan. It's a shame she's been dead for over fifteen years, but it's great to see her get a new audience-- namely me.
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If you don't know anything about Sarah Vaughan, you don't know anything about Jazz Vocalists! Sarah, a simple girl from Newark, New Jersey, stands up there with Ella Fitzgerald and many of the other great female jazz singers!Although I'm not a big fan of live venue recordings, this Verve re-issue of a live, 1958 performance at "The London House" in Chicago is one of the best examples I have com...
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Sarah Vaughan (1924 - 1990) was a phemonenal jazz singer who was simply a force of nature. Her unusual contralto voice spanned many octaves with great felixibility and grace becoming more florid over the years as she began singing with the easy of a great brass player. She was known to her fans world wide as either "Sassy" or "The Divine One" although there are really no words adequate to desc...
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Sarah Vaughan returned to recording pop songs with jazz oriented arrangements. She recorded more with the likes of Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Ray Brown, and Louie Bellson on these albums which garnered critical praise. Members of her personal appearances band would include Jimmy Jones (1947 - 1952, 1954 - 1958), Roy Haynes (1953 - 1958), Richard Davis (late 1950's to early 1960's), Bob James (19...
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In 1946, Sarah Vaughan's manager and later her husband George Treadwell fashioned her repertoire and stage appearance into the classy performer we came to know and love. Thanks to his guidance, Vaughan had considerable success on the growing media of television and records throughout the 1940's and 1960's. Although her contralto voice with that throbbing vibrato was heard chiefly on easy listen...
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Here's one of the great jazz singer's taking on a classic, "'Round Midnight." This version is from the excellent, recently released Live At The 1971 Monterey Jazz Festival album.
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I think VH1 flunks this one...
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