Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin (Remastered) [ Mono ] Sarah Vaughan

• 1Isn't It A Pity?03:58
• 2Of Thee I Sing (Master Take)03:10
• 3I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise02:40
• 4Someone To Watch Over Me03:58
• 5Bidin My Time03:02
• 6The Man I Love03:37
• 7How Long Has This Been Going On?03:59
• 8My One And Only (What Am I Gonna Do?)03:14
• 9Lorelei02:32
• 10I've Got A Crush On You04:00
• 11Summertime02:50
• 12Aren't You Kinda Glad We Did?03:29
• 13They All Laughed02:25
• 14Looking For A Boy03:41
• 15He Loves And She Loves03:26
• 16My Man's Gone Now04:21
• 17I Won't Say I Will But I Won't Say I Won't03:24
• 18A Foggy Day03:49
• 19Let's Call The Whole Thing Off02:25
• 20Things Are Looking Up03:35
• 21Do It Again03:15
• 22Love Walked In03:18
• Total Runtime01:14:08

Info for Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin (Remastered) [ Mono ]

This HighResAudio release contains the complete original Sarah Vaughan double album set "Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin" (Mercury MGP-2-101), which presents Sarah performing songs by the great composer backed by the Hal Mooney orchestra. A variety of other Gershwin songs (and different versions of the same songs included on the album) recorded by the singer for different labels during that same period have been added here as a bonus. Featured musicians include Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, J. J. Johnson, Kai Winding, and Roy Haynes, among many others.

Sarah Vaughan, vocals
Hal Mooney & His Orchestra
Jimmy Jones, piano

Produced by Bob Shad

Digitally remastered

Sarah Vaughan
Jazz critic Leonard Feather called her “the most important singer to emerge from the bop era.” Ella Fitzgerald called her the world’s “greatest singing talent.” During the course of a career that spanned nearly fifty years, she was the singer’s singer, influencing everyone from Mel Torme to Anita Baker. She was among the musical elite identified by their first names. She was Sarah, Sassy — the incomparable Sarah Vaughan.

Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1924, Vaughan was immediately surrounded by music: her carpenter father was an amateur guitarist and her laundress mother was a church vocalist. Young Sarah studied piano from the age of seven, and before entering her teens had become an organist and choir soloist at the Mount Zion Baptist Church. When she was eighteen, friends dared her to enter the famed Wednesday Night Amateur Contest at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. She gave a sizzling rendition of “Body and Soul,” and won first prize. In the audience that night was the singer Billy Eckstine. Six months later, she had joined Eckstine in Earl Hines’s big band along with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.

When Eckstine formed his own band soon after, Vaughan went with him. Others including Miles Davis and Art Blakey, were eventually to join the band as well. Within a year, however, Vaughan wanted to give a solo career a try. By late 1947, she had topped the charts with “Tenderly,” and as the 1940s gave way to the 1950s, Vaughan expanded her jazz repertoire to include pop music. As a result, she enlarged her audience, gained increased attention for her formidable talent, and compiled additional hits, including the Broadway show tunes “Whatever Lola Wants” and “Mr. Wonderful.” While jazz purists balked at these efforts, no one could deny that in any genre, Vaughan had one of the greatest voices in the business.

In the late 1960s, Vaughan returned to jazz music, performing and making regular recordings. Throughout the 1970s and ’80s she recorded with such jazz notables as Oscar Peterson, Louie Bellson, Zoot Sims, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Don Cherry, and J.J. Johnson. Her recordings of the “Duke Ellington Song Book (1 and 2)” are considered some of the finest recordings of the time. While for many years her signature song had been “Misty,” by the mid-70’s, she was closing every show with Sondheim’s “Send In The Clowns.” In 1982, while in her late fifties, Vaughan won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocalist for her album, “Gershwin Live”!

While she continued to work without the massive commercial success enjoyed by colleagues such as Peggy Lee, Rosemary Clooney, and Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan consistently retained a special place in the hearts of fellow musicians and audiences alike. She continually performed at top venues, playing to adoring sell-out crowds well into her sixties. Remarkably, unlike many singers, she lost none of her extraordinary talent as time went on. Her multi-octave range, with its swooping highs and sensual lows, and the youthful suppleness of her voice shaded by a luscious timbre and executed with fierce control, all remained intact. In 1990, at the age sixty-six, Sarah Vaughan passed away. Shortly after her death, Mel Torme summed up the feelings of all who had seen her, saying “She had the single best vocal instrument of any singer working in the popular field.” (Source: http://www.pbs.org)

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