Sarah Vaughan was an American jazz singer.
Nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One" she won four Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. She was given an NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989. Critic Scott Yanow wrote that she had "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century”.
This album brought to you at mid-price is a series of recordings of Vaughan performing at the legendary Birdland in 1952.
Vaughan died in April 1990.
TRACKS:
Birdland 22nd March 1952
- Vanity
- Mean To Me
- Tenderly
- Perdido
- Once In A While
Birdland 23rd August 1952
- Once In A While
- I Cried For You
- Street Of Dreams
- Perdido
- I Ran All The Way Home
- Time To Go
Birdland 5th September 1952
- Body And Soul
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Everything I Have Is Yours
- Summertime
- Linger Awhile
- East Of The Sun