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Classic Mood Experience The best masterpieces ever recorded in the music history Join our Youtube a https 3A 2F 2Fgoo gl 2F8AOGaN a Join our Facebook a http 3A 2F 2Fgoo gl 2F5oL723 a Buy on Google Play goo gl xiD1J0 00 00 Sarah Vaughan - Thinking Of You 1950 03 00 Sarah Vaughan - It's Magic 1948 06 06 Sarah Vaughan - You're Mine You 1949 09 15 Sarah Vaughan - Perdido 1950 11 43 Sarah Vaughan - While You're Gone 1949 14 48 Sarah Vaughan - I Love The Guy 1950 17 19 Sarah Vaughan - Nature Boy 1948 20 17 Sarah Vaughan - Tenderly 1947 23 17 Sarah Vaughan - You Taught Me To Love Again 1949 26 31 Sarah Vaughan - Just Friends 1949 29 28 Sarah Vaughan - Black Coffee 1949 32 29 Sarah Vaughan - Our Very Own 1950 35 39 Sarah Vaughan - Whippa Whippa Woo 1950 38 45 Sarah Vaughan - I Cried For You 1949 41 36 Sarah Vaughan - Ain't Misbehavin' 1950 44 33 Sarah Vaughan - Summertime 1949 47 43 Sarah Vaughan - I'm Crazy To Love You 1949 Sarah Lois Vaughan March 27 1924 April 3 1990 was an American jazz singer described by music critic Scott Yanow as having one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century Nicknamed Sassy and The Divine One Sarah Vaughan was a Grammy Award winner The National Endowment for the Arts bestowed upon her its highest honor in jazz the NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989 Biographies of Vaughan frequently stated that she was immediately thrust into stardom after a winning amateur night performance at Harlem's Zeus Theater In fact the story that biographer Renee relates seems to be a bit more complex Vaughan was frequently accompanied by a friend Doris Robinson on her trips into New York City Some time in the fall of 1942 by which time she was 18 years old Vaughan suggested that Robinson enter the Apollo Theater Amateur Night contest Vaughan played piano accompaniment for Robinson who won second prize Vaughan later decided to go back and compete herself as a singer Vaughan sang Body and Soul and won although the exact date of her victorious Apollo performance is uncertain The prize as Vaughan recalled later to Marian McPartland was 10 and the promise of a week's engagement at the Apollo After a considerable delay Vaughan was contacted by the Apollo in the spring of 1943 to open for Ella Fitzgerald Vaughan spent the remainder of 1943 and part of 1944 touring the country with the Earl Hines big band that featured baritone Billy Eckstine Vaughan was hired as a pianist reputedly so Hines could hire her under the jurisdiction of the musicians' union American Federation of Musicians rather than the singers union American Guild of Variety Artists but after Cliff Smalls joined the band as a trombonist and pianist Sarah's duties became limited exclusively to singing The Earl Hines band in this period is remembered as an incubator of bebop as it included trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie saxophonist Charlie Parker playing tenor rather than his more usual alto saxophone and trombonist Bennie Green Gillespie arranged for the band although the contemporary recording ban by the musicians' union means there is no aural evidence in the form of commercial records Vaughan began her solo career in 1945 by freelancing in clubs on New York's 52nd Street such as the Three Deuces the Famous Door the Downbeat and the Onyx Club Vaughan hung around the Braddock Grill next door to the Apollo Theater in Harlem On May 11 1945 Vaughan recorded Lover Man for the Guild label with a quintet featuring Gillespie and Parker with Al Haig on piano Curly Russell on double bass and Sid Catlett on drums Later that month she went into the studio with a slightly different and larger Gillespie Parker aggregation and recorded three more sides The musicians union ban pushed Musicraft to the brink of bankruptcy and Vaughan used the missed royalty payments as an opportunity to sign with the larger Columbia record label Following the settling of the legal issues her chart successes continued with the charting of Black Coffee in the summer of 1949 During her tenure at Columbia through 1953 Vaughan was steered almost exclusively to commercial pop ballads a number of which had chart success That Lucky Old Sun Make Believe You Are Glad When You're Sorry I'm Crazy to Love You Our Very Own I Love the Guy Thinking of You with pianist Bud Powell I Cried for You These Things I Offer You Vanity I Ran All the Way Home Saint or Sinner My Tormented Heart and Time among others FROM WIKIPEDIA a https 3A 2F 2Fen wikipedia org 2Fwiki 2FSarah Vaughan a

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