Sarah Vaughan -《The Quintessence Of Sarah Vaughan》[APE]

专辑介绍：

Sarah Vaughan 生於1924年3月27日 in NewJersey，父亲是木匠，会弹吉它与唱民谣，母亲是洗衣妇，会弹钢琴与唱教会圣歌，所以Sarah 12岁就开始弹风琴与加入唱诗班。1942年，就像前辈Ella Fitzgerald一样，Sarah在阿波罗剧院的业餘歌唱比赛中夺魁，从此开始职业演唱的生涯，她原本的希望是当个美髮师。

1944年 Sarah 在 Billy Eckstine 的推荐下，加入 Earl Hines 的乐队，Sarah 会弹钢琴而 BillyEckstine会吹管小喇叭，伸缩喇叭与弹吉他。Billy Eckstine 接着就和 Sarah 单飞自组乐队，他们的合作对象有 Charlie Parker, DizzyGillespie, Mile Davis, Art Blakey and Budd Johnson
。当时正处於【Be-Bop】的蕴酿期，更自由更随兴的新音乐风格，使得 Sarah的演唱风格更是弹性与自我。1945年，Vaughan 离开 Eckstine 和他的乐团，之后便与Musicraft唱片公司签约，市场反应还算不错。1946年，Vaughan 在 Musicraft 唱片公司出版 " If You Could See Me Now
"，深获乐评们的肯定。

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 "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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CD1

1 Nice Work If You Can Get It (2:38)
2 It Might as Well Be Spring (3:14)
3 Ain't Misbehavin' (3:03)
4 Goodnight My Love (3:31)
5 Summertime (3:17)
6 Can't Get Out of This Mood (2:53)
7 Nearness of You (3:24)
8 Come Rain or Come Shine (3:28)
9 Once in a While (3:05)
10 Don't Blame Me (3:11)
11 Tenderly (3:05)
12 Mean to Me (2:39)
13 Lover Man (3:26)
14 No Smokes Blues (2:29)
15 Body and Soul (2:57)
16 East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) (2:55)
17 I Can Make You Love Me (3:05)
18 My Kinda Love (2:39)
19 Cheek to Cheek (2:47)
20 Alexander's Ragtime Band (4:01)


CD2

1.The Man I Love - 2:52
2.Love Me or Leave Me - 2:55
3.The Lord's Prayer - 2:57
4.Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - 2:50
5.I Get a Kick Out of You - 2:56
6.I Can't Get Started - 2:30
7.I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself - 2:24
8.September Song - 3:06
9.Time After Time - 3:09
10.Don't Worry 'Bout Me - 2:57
11.Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone) - 3:14
12.I'll Wait and Pray - 3:04
13.Button up Your Overcoat - 2:32
14.Trouble Is a Man - 2:33
15.I'm Through With Love - 2:55
16.I've Got a Crush on You - 3:02
17.Everything I Have Is Yours - 2:55
18.I Feel So Smoochie - 2:40
19.The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) - 3:13
20.I Cover the Waterfront - 2:57
21.I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You - 2:47
22.I'd Rather Have a Memory Than a Dream - 2:42