She is the best singer ever! Jazz, pop, rock, brazilian or french melodies, she can perform anything and it is always perfection.- What now my love is the proof!
On a bio of her life one friend said an interviewer asked miss Sarah," how do you tune up your vocal cords to sound so incredibly wonderful"? And her reply was," oh, a shot of whiskey here and there, depending on how happy or sad the song may be ". I thought to myself, now that was honestly timeless. ☺😊.
One of the greatest voices ever in Jazz. I am so grateful I got the chance to see and hear and meet Sarah Vaughn many times. In fact, It was because of Ms. Vaughns's appearance at the Blue Note Jazz club in New York City( when they still had real Jazz) on New Year's Eve 1985 That I got sober. So many of the most marvelous Black vocalists and entertainers of authentic Black culture came out of "Segregation".
Sarah could sing anything well.I always could not split her and Ella.Both could sing CONTRATO and both had amazing ranges.They were the two best female singers of all time. Voice control was perfect and she could sing a standard song in different ways.
sooo glad i actually saw her perform in piedmont park in the summer of 1989, not even a yaer before her death. even in the humid heat, she was flawless in her vocal delivery. simply flawless. RIP Sassy.
This is really a wonderful selection of Sarah on film, well selected and sequenced beautifully. When "B" (Miles' designation for his former boss Billy Eckstine), walked out at the Apollo, I practically lost it. I think the year of that last clip was 1985--when Sarah experienced an amazing resurgence of creative energy, thanks in great part to perhaps the best pianist she had ever toured with--the unheralded but incomparable Frank Collett. I'd love to see a film of Sarah and Frank together in concert. (Just a note about the title: see how it sounds to you to substitute "loving" for "lovely," as "In Loving Memory: Sarah Vaughan."
In fact the final performance here is much earlier - I'd estimate '79 or 1980, just before this very trio disbanded (it's the fabulous Carl Schroder, p;, Walter Booker of Cannonball Adderley fame, b; and the legendary Jimmy Cobb, dr) along with her then new husband, Waymon Reed, on flugelhorn. I too LOVE Frank Collett, and you're right, he stepped in for George Gaffney for a chunk of 1985 - you'll find a superb Japanese club performance here on RU-vid (search "Live At Satin Doll, Tokyo") and an amazing double CD set on the Canadian JustInTime label called "Live In The City of Lights" recorded, of course, in Paris where Frank Collett is in peak form and she's loving him. In fact, I'd nominate this Paris concert as fundamental to a Vaughan record collection - it's outrageously great! (Not least because, too, she had found the ten-year team of Andy Simpkins, b; and the great Harold Jones, drums).
''What Now My Love'just blew me away. At about 18:30 she has to hold her microphon a good two feet away to modulate the powerful, pure, shattering tones of her finale.
SIMPLY DIVINE ALWAYS DIVINE, LADY SASSIE SARAH LOIS VAUGHAN (LA DIVINE). ❤❤❤❤❤❤♥️♥️♥️♥️ P.S. IMAGINE FINDING OUT NEARLY SIX DECADES TO LEARN OR RELEARN FAMILY STORIES AND SARAH IS A PART OF IT. WOW!!! I WISHED I DID THINGS DIFFERENTLY IN THE 70s & 80s. BUT I KNOW WE WILL ALL MEET AGAIN IN THE HIGHEST HEAVEN WHERE SASSIE IS LEADING A FEW HEAVENLY CHOIRS ALONG WITH MAHALIA JACKSON. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
..Los semiaburridos de la vida....Al azar disfrutar de esta artista..digitando con mala gana mi celular....¡Encontrar esta voz y artista con un carisma único !......Ya es mi fortuna invisible... Y como sonrie naturaalmente al cantar...eso es DIVINO..
Man oh man...what a shame most of the Rap generations, know not of Sarah....to me, she is with Nina Simone....as the Queens of this domain, this Jazz land.......Ella is so wonderful, ;yes....but....I still prefer Sara Vaughan.....and ...well....ya know....Nina of course...composer, activist, performer.......thats hard to get equal to with simply self...and voice....man oh man....
Thank you so much for this! Quick question: do you have the complete concert of the 1st performance? I've been trying to track it down for years. If you are interested, I have a Sarah Vaughan/ Billie Holiday blog where I post rare finds thedivinelady.tumblr.com/!
Kirk Stuart sings with Sassy here - check out this favorite version too (Wish we had the video of that concert - anyone?): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6U1RaS_TQQk.html
The difference when I'm listening to black female Jazz & Blues singers: Pearl Bailey - 🥰 Billie Holiday: 😢 Nancy Wilson: 😘 Sarah Vaughan: 😌 Ella Fitzgerald: 😃 Nina Simone: 🤤 Lena Horne: 😏 Bessie Smith: ☺️ Ma Rainey: 🤠 Lucille Bogan: 😱 Eartha Kitt: 😚 Dinah Washington: 😯 Koko Taylor: 🤯 *Gospel: Mahalia Jackson: 😇 Clara Ward: 🥺 Cissy Houston: 😳 *Rock n Roll: Big Mamma Thornton: 🤩 Sister Rosetta Tharpe: 🥳 *Classical/Ethnic/Theatrical: Josephine Baker: 😁 (*Not gonna include the " QUEEN OF SOUL " - Aretha and other 60's Soul Divas, They, Shady*)
Having an ad cutoff a song during the performance is unforgivable, but you do it just before the ending just makes this trash out of Sarah Vaughn. How sad. And repulsive.
