Larry Kart Posted July 5, 2006 Report Posted July 5, 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt7Ro2gr2JU...sarah%20vaughan Dig what she does to the bridge! Quote
JSngry Posted July 5, 2006 Report Posted July 5, 2006 Ya' know, sometimes I think that she wasted a lot of her genius over the years on unworthy material and/or settings, but how can you think of "waste" and a performance like that in the same thought? Quote
Jim R Posted July 5, 2006 Report Posted July 5, 2006 Geez... that abrupt ending was a bitch. Not unlike your mother-in-law arriving unannounced when you're in the middle of... well, anyway- I'm just glad that the person who uploaded that identified the vocalist correctly (instead of believing the Ella Fitzgerald labeling at the beginning ). Sublime indeed. I think I have four recorded versions by Sarah (from the 50's, 60's and 70's), but this one may top them all in terms of pure imagination and confindence of melodic invention. Maybe a longer version of this performance will turn up... I hope so. Quote
Alexander Hawkins Posted July 9, 2006 Report Posted July 9, 2006 Oh my. That is a special performance. I know very little Sarah Vaughan - could anyone recommend an album to try out from around this period? Very nice comping from the piano player. p.s. in the right hands - e.g. these, or Bud Powell's, etc. - this is a wonderful tune! Quote
Larry Kart Posted July 9, 2006 Author Report Posted July 9, 2006 My guess on the piano player is Jimmy Jones. I'd try next the Emarcy album she did with Clifford Brown. It's been reissued on CD. Another great one for Sarah, though you'll have to put up with some string-laden orchestras and soupy charts, is "Great Songs from Hit Shows," a 2-CD set that I hope is still available (I wrote the notes). In in a similar vein, there's her 2-CD set of Gershwin material -- all these from the Emarcy period. Quote
Stereojack Posted July 9, 2006 Report Posted July 9, 2006 Oh my. That is a special performance. I know very little Sarah Vaughan - could anyone recommend an album to try out from around this period? My favorite Sarah Vaughan albums are the ones with sparse accompaniment. "After Hours" (Roulette) with just guitar & bass "Sassy Swings the Tivoli" (Mercury) with trio - she's in amazing voice on this one Quote
Kalo Posted July 9, 2006 Report Posted July 9, 2006 Wow! I agree, truly sublime. Larry, I forgot that you wrote the liner notes for the CD reissue of Great Songs... An amazing set. Time to pull that one out again for further listening (and reading). Quote
samnat Posted July 10, 2006 Report Posted July 10, 2006 "In the Land of Hi-Fi" with Cannonball Adderley--she's all over the octaves on that. Quote
kinuta Posted July 10, 2006 Report Posted July 10, 2006 Indeed great. Time to relisten to some of the Complete Mercury. Quote
felser Posted July 10, 2006 Report Posted July 10, 2006 'Swingin Easy' by Vaughan is the greatest jazz vocal album ever IMO. Vocal with piano trio recordings from 1954 and 1957. Her voice was still in full force at that point, and the recordings are magic. Worth the price of admission alone for her introduction of Roy Haynes on "Shulie a Bop", which was then parodied by Rahsaan on Haynes' excellent 'Out of the Afternoon' album in 1962. 'Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown' also should not be missed, especially for "Lullabye of Birdland". After that, I'd go with 'One Night Stand: The Town Hall Concert 1947', for the purest singing in the history of the planet, then go with the jazz-oriented Mercury material and the Proper Box to capture the early Musicraft and Columbia sides. Quote
Alexander Hawkins Posted July 10, 2006 Report Posted July 10, 2006 Thanks for these pointers! I have the Brownie already - wonderful stuff, of course! Quote
The Rep Posted July 10, 2006 Report Posted July 10, 2006 I have many of her albums and play them all. I only have this to add, listen to her version of Trees from the album Dreamy, Harry Edison is with her. Secondly don't get Songs Of The Beatles my big disapointment. Another you might like to hear is Crazy And Mixed Up, Roland Hanna - piano, Andy Simpkins - bass, Harold Jones - drums and Joe Pass - guitar. Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted July 10, 2006 Report Posted July 10, 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt7Ro2gr2JU...sarah%20vaughan Dig what she does to the bridge! What that is, my friends, is the understanding of melody, the mastery of phrasing, and the perfection of the human voice. If anyone on today's scene has those three things in their bag, I haven't heard it. Quote
Jim R Posted July 10, 2006 Report Posted July 10, 2006 Oh my. That is a special performance. I know very little Sarah Vaughan - could anyone recommend an album to try out from around this period? My favorite Sarah Vaughan albums are the ones with sparse accompaniment. "After Hours" (Roulette) with just guitar & bass "Sassy Swings the Tivoli" (Mercury) with trio - she's in amazing voice on this one Those are two of my favorites as well, and I'm practically a Sarah completeist. I generally prefer the small group stuff, but if I had to pick one track from her entire career (not a practical or sensible thing to do ), it would be an orchestral track- "I'll Never Be The Same", from "The Lonely Hours" (Roulette), reissued on CD as part of "The Benny Carter Sessions" (along with The Explosive Side Of Sarah Vaughan"). I don't even have to play it anymore... I can just play it in my head, and the hair on the back of my neck stands on end. Quote
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