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For more great Sarah, check out: http://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=214-MD-CD Jazz critic Leonard Feather called her "the most important singer to emerge from the bop era." Ella Fitzgerald called her the worlds "greatest singing talent." During the course of a career that spanned nearly fifty years, she was the singers 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 Harlems 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 Hiness 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-70s, she was closing every show with Sondheims "Bring 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."

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no studio mixin, no auto-tuning, no voice synthesizing....just a pure, un adulterated, golden voice.

Her voice is just divine. If you watch her videos when she's older, her voice only gets richer. You gotta love that beautiful smile of hers :)

@Cenzontle7 yea, I know the audio is sometimes off because a number of my own uploaded videos are like that. But what I mean is listen to how many times you hear a snare drum in the track while he's playing, and then look at how many times you actually see him hit the snare drum...doesn't match at all, no matter how off the audio may be...But I DO love his shirt. lol. And enough about the drummer, Ms. Vaughn is amazing!

You might already know this, but sometimes the audio is off from the video on youtube. So he's really there and really playing. He's also wearing a cool salsero shirt to add to the latin atmosphere. You can tell by watching he is on tempo even if the audio is off. And I agree Sista Sassy is killin'. I've wanted to possess her since I saw this video back in the 90s.

Hahaha...Maybe its because he's not actually playing anything. The video and the audio are recorded separately (just like today) and if you actually look at his hands, he's not even ATTEMPTING to play what's in the audio recording. He's just a prop in this video, and he ain't feeling that. lol.

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