Recorded between January 1949 and January 1953, this compilation of fourteen romantic ballads by one of the word's greatest interpreters moves nice and slow. With the lush sounds of a full orchestra ...

1 Introduction 2 I'm Gonna Live Till I Die 3 A Night in Tunisia Interlude 4 Misty 5 In a Mellow Tone 6 Chelsea Bridge 7 Whatever Lola Wants 8 Someone to Watch Over Me 9 Mean to Me 10 Wave 11 Send in ...

This is FRESH AIR. Jazz and pop and classical singer Sarah Vaughan was born 100 years ago today in Newark, N.J. As a girl, she sang in church in Newark before breaking into show business at New York's ...

All it might take is a second and a half of hearing her sing to make your spine tingle or your heart drop. Opera singers, jazz vocalists, writers and Vaughan’s biographer share their favorites. By ...

Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan (Eternal Source Of Light/!K7 Records) is totally different from its predecessor. It is a jazz album, unashamedly so, and brings to the fore Zara McFarlane as ...

Whatever else you want to say about Sarah Vaughan, she was an artist of extremes, and often of contradictions. She was born with a voice that, if not for the color of her skin in her generation, would ...