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"Sassy" as Sarah Vaughan was lovingly called, is considered, along with Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee, one of the definitive, great women singers of jazz and popular music. She memorably began her career as pianist and vocalist with her lifelong fellow musician and friend Billy Eckstine. Before she died in 1990, she had recorded with many, many jazz greats including Count Basie, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, the legendary Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Benny Carter and Quincy Jones who said "Sassy and Ella were 'fire breathing monsters, they saw themselves as horns'" Sarah Vaughan, who was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1924 like Ella Fitzgerald, first came to attention when she won the Apollo Theatre Amateur Night in 1942. By 1950, she became a best selling recording artist with recordings like "Linger Awhile" and "You're Mine You." and a millionaire, a rare achievement for a woman musician at that time. By the mid-1950s, she had million sellers including "Broken Hearted Melody." This concert taped in 1985, offers a rare recorded "in person" performance of Sarah Vaughan. It has never been seen before and gives us a wonderful opportunity to enjoy a happy, relaxed, warmly humorous and vocally supreme presentation by the great singer. Backed by a jazz trio, she sings several of her well known, classic songs including "Poor Butterfly," "East Of The Sun" as well as her two most identified songs "Misty" and Stephen Sondheim's "Send In The Clowns." This is an "ENCORE" concert that offers the great singer in a perfect melding of a visual and song performance that was rarely captured during the unforgettable Sarah Vaughan's musical lifetime.

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Sales Points

• She won Esquire magazine's New Star Award for 1947
• Won awards from Down Beat magazine from 1947 to 1952
• The show was produced in 1985 but not initially released until 2005
• Originally released by Kultur Video
• For fans of Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday
• Vaughan won four Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award

Press Quotes

...this glimpse into the extraordinary artistry of Vaughn is a lesson in vocal jazz history

     —Scholarly Journal

one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century

     —Scott Yano, SCOTTYANOWJAZZ@YAHOO.COM