Sarah Vaughans piano concert Barcelona Spain 1985 

Love it😄

Tenho paixão por Sarah . Gostaria de tê-la conhecido ! 💗🦋

Is that you, Frank Collette? (Sorry if I botched the spelling) In the Fall semester of senior year of college - October, 1985 :) - my then-girlfriend and I drove down from upstate NY for the second year in a row to hear Sarah Vaughan at the Blue Note. We sat right below you. I remember a ballad - pretty sure it was "Here's Rainy Day", but not 100% - and in one of her choruses, she started changing keys, seemingly at random (maybe it was a series of substitutions, my ears and education weren't quite "there" yet), while looking at you sideways, with a smart aleck glances, and you stayed with her! We two were riveted by your concentration, and watched your reading glasses slide down and then nearly off. You managed to grab them and then put the down without missing a beat or a chord change. You can be sure we told every one of our professors back up in music school. I told the Jazz program head that what I'd heard and seen that weekend scared and intimated me. "I'm getting a degree this year!" I complained. "Should this be happening at this stage of my life?" "Yes," he said. "That degree isn't the end, it's the very beginning. If you're smart and lucky, there will be things that you'll hear and go, 'huh?', and then you'll learn about them and grow some more. Frank Collette is a magnificent piano player, so you were lucky to hear him, and with Sarah Vaughan? That was a semester of school right there!" Do I remember correctly that it was Andy simpkins and HHarold Jones with you? Cheers!

@@luvmyrecords RIP Frank Collett, sadly. In 1985, he played both in Europe (as above, and on the OBLIGATORY "Live In The City of Lights" double CD - outta' sight - same tour), and Japan - here on RU-vid as "Live At Satin Doll, Tokyo" - this, though, is the excellent Bob Maize on bass - but, I believe, Andy Simpkins was may be on the Tokyo dates. He certainly returned to the trio - I know that - along with the fantastic Harold Jones (of Count Basie fame - now on the road, TO THIS DAY, with Tony Bennett!). George Gaffney was the regular piano player, though (and GREAT TOO!).

Lovely. True Jazz/ swing piano, Great Saz! MW

No: She was "DIVINE"!

Indimenticabile!

was your aunt Ann? My mother Renee knew her I think.

Wow, Even I knew that! Sarah Vaughn and Nina Simone were known for playing the piano and their performance of Jazz. Nina Simone was a Classical trained pianist from the age of 4. My parent's and relatives would play the albums of the icons of this Era. A few of the albums showed her sitting at the piano! Some of the female Jazz Icon's during that era were Dinah Washington, Esther Phillips, Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald!! It is very surprising that you were fascinated by her voice over the decades but obviously never studied her background in depth!!! Why didn't the Professor , his mother and your father tell you about this Magnificent ,Talented Jazz Musician? At some point her outstanding ability to play the piano should have been discussed.

She was brought up in the Baptist church, traveled for years w/ jazz musicians on the bus - how could she not have developed a unique sense of humor . Love you Sass !

She was profoundly talented. She was first hired as a second pianist for Earl Hines's band. Sarah Vaughan, Carmen Mcrae, Dinah Washington, all jazz singers who were also brilliant pianists.

Look up her history; she was a singer/pianist in big bands during the mid-1940s until she went solo.

But certainly sassy 😂

I miss Andy Simpkins too (d. 6/99) what a humble, beautiful & talented man. And one of the historical Three Sounds !

I had NO idea! Fabulous

Also with Earl Hines' band

Not Billy Eckstein's band, but Earl Hines. And that was before she started performing all those great duets w/ Billy . Brush up on your jazz history a bit . But God loves you anyway !

@@markbridwell8972 She was in Billy's band after Hines', but was singing more than playing the piano.

Thank you. I wanted to know the band members names. The bassman is brilliant. Oh I just adore that.

It’s funny how you used some of the few genuinely talented singers still around as examples of why the music industry is awful. It is awful now, but you really weakened your point using people like Whitney Houston, Mary J Blige, Adele, etc who are actually good vocalists.

@@JazzFlop212 Agreed.

Celine?why her?...

The Donovan Frühlingsrauschen by Christian Sinding

@@francescaonida3876 I love you until the end of timeeEEEEEEEEEEE