Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Vaughan , singer of Jazz born the March 27th 1924 with Newark in the New Jersey and deceased with Hidden Hills in California, the April 3rd 1990.

Biography

Born in a family as religious as musician, she learns the song and harmonium in a religious context, within the Church Baptiste.

She keeps the double speciality (song and piano), playing of the piano in the orchestra of her college and singing in the choruses with the church; she devotes herself to the song when she gains the contest of amateurs of the theater of Appolo to Harlem, ten years after Ella Fitzgerald which comes to congratulate it.

She joined the orchestra of Earl Hines then the modernistic orchestra, which introduces the Be Bop into the music of Big Band, of Billy Eckstine. She is in particular influenced by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, then members of the Orchestre.

In December 1944, it records under its name a splendid version of " In Night in Tunisia" under the name of " Interlude" with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie in sidemen of luxury.

In 1949, it signs at the label Columbia and records there abundantly. In the Fifties, it alternates rather commercial faces with full orchestra for Mecury and of the faces accompanied by small formations often by great quality like those by the historical album With Clifford Brown (1954).

In 1958, it records an album with the orchestra of Count Basie, No Count Sarah .

In the Years 1960, its voice loses slightly in virtuosity but gains in-depth as proves it its formidable performance with the Tivoli of Copenhagen in 1963 or that with the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1971 recently published.

She records during these years with symphony orchestras. Starting from 1982, the recordings and concerts are done rarer.

Style

Equipped with extraordinary faculties, its voice extends on several octaves. Its perfect vocal control allows him all the prowesses, of the jumps of register of a rare amplitude to the modulations and proportionings of volume quite as impressive.

Its musical culture, nourished by the Be Bop, nourish its improvisations of a great harmonic and rhythmic invention. Its style is also marked by a brilliant use of the Vibrato.

Splendid interpreter of ballades, it is also an extraordinary singer of Scat. One hardly knows to him of rival in this field, except Ella Fitzgerald.

All these qualities shine particularly in its Live performances the more so as it can put them in scene with humor, as in its version of " Tenderly" , recorded in Tivoli in 1963.

She is considered, with Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, like one of the three larger Chanteuse S of Jazz.

Partial and selective discography

1954 : Swingin' Easy, Emarcy
1954: Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown, Emarcy
1955: In the Land off Hi-fi, EmArcy
1957: At Mister Kelly' S, Mercury
1958: No Count Sarah, EmArcy
1963: Sassy Swings the Tivoli, Emarcy
1971: Live At the 1971 Monterey Jazz Festival, MJF Records , 2007

Bonds and sources

allmusic/Sarah Vaughan
Dictionary of the Jazz, Robert Laffont , 1994

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