Search results for "Sarah Vaughan"

Count Basie (with Sarah Vaughan and Joe Williams): Teach Me Tonight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 27, 07

Vaughan and Basie were regulars at the jazz club Birdland on Broadway in New York City; Williams was still the vocali...

Sarah Vaughan: Lullaby of Birdland (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Vaughan always makes the hard stuff look easy. When bebop was shaking up the older musicians and rewriting the rules...

Dianne Reeves: Lullaby of Birdland (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

Reeves made her name singing contemporary pop-jazz with crossover appeal. But now in her 50s, she has adopted a more...

Clifford Brown-Sarah Vaughan: September Song (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 03, 09

Sarah Vaughan met and heard Brownie while he was a member of Chris Powell and His Five Blue Flames, and claimed to ha...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AL HOOD SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL CLIFFORD BROWN TRACKS

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Sarah Vaughan: Come Rain or Come Shine (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

By 1950, the finest singer of the bebop era had done her best to put bop behind her. Since bop was primarily instrume...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: FIFTIES FEMMES FATALES

In 1958, as evidence that love's fever is a long-running malady, singer/lyricist Peggy Lee alluded to Romeo & Julie...

Sarah Vaughan: Shulie-a-Bop (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 01, 09

Few anticipated that Roy Haynes's next move, after extended runs with Lester Young and Charlie Parker, and club dates...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ROY HAYNES

The century mark is a uniquely exciting time in the development of a major musical style. History is unearthed, co...

Sarah Vaughan: Midnight Sun (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music March 04, 09

Sarah Vaughan's detractors felt that she too often allowed her multi-octave, almost limitlessly flexible voice to dis...

Sarah Vaughan: Shulie-A-Bop (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 06, 09

Sarah Vaughan had the jazz singer's perfect combination: a flexible voice and an acute harmonic sense. Naturally, she...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SCAT SINGING

Scat singing—improvised solos created by a vocalist using nonsense syllables for words—is one of the great parado...

Sarah Vaughan: In a Sentimental Mood (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music April 22, 08

After Hours may finally have satisfied Sarah Vaughan's detractors. In an intimate setting with just guitar and bass a...

Sarah Vaughan: Maria (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 26, 09

"The most beautiful sound I ever heard...." So begins in wonder the central song of West Side Story, Tony's expressio...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WEST SIDE STORY

Scads of Broadway show tunes have become jazz standards, but probably no single musical proved more popular with...

Sarah Vaughan: My Funny Valentine (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 20, 09

As her voice became deeper and richer, Sarah Vaughan's interpretive powers grew even more profound. As Gunther Schull...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MY FUNNY VALENTINE

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Sarah Vaughan: The Island (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 23, 09

Sarah Vaughan self-produced Crazy and Mixed Up, her final and perhaps finest album for Norman Granz's Pablo label. Th...

Sarah Vaughan: Autumn Leaves (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 08, 08

The way Sarah Vaughan tackles this tune is so lively that one is surprised not to hear the audience cheer and applaud...

Sarah Vaughan: If You Could See Me Now (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

A year after recording with Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker, the finest singer of the bebop era had already turned h...

Vaughan, Sarah posted in Encyclopedia July 18, 08

Singer Sarah Vaughan brought the same level of creativity and musicianship to her craft that her bandmates brought to...

Haynes, Roy (Owen) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 08

Drummer Roy Haynes has sat at the helm of jazz for more than sixty years. Like his early idol Jo Jones, Haynes's expr...

A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07

A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...

In Conversation with Jimmy Cobb (Part One) posted in Features and Interviews March 31, 08

by Ralph A. Miriello Jimmy Cobb is the last surviving participant on the most celebrated jazz recording of the ...

Pass, Joe (Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua) posted in Encyclopedia January 20, 09

Joe Pass expanded the guitar's possibilities in jazz with his fast, saxophone-like lines and graceful melodic sensibi...

Wilkins, Jack posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Wilkins, Jack, guitar, teacher; b. Brooklyn, NY, 3 June 1944. His father is Jack Rivers Lewis. His mother was Mary Ge...

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