Sarah Vaughan - The Sassy One

For more great Sarah, check out: www.mosaicrecords.com jazz critic Leonard Feather called "the most important singers emerge from the bebop era." Ella Fitzgerald called greatest vocal talent in the world '. "During a career that spanned nearly fifty years, was with the singer singers, each influenced by Mel Torme Anita Baker. It was under the musical elite identified by their first names . It 'was Sarah, Sassy - the incomparable Sarah Vaughan. Born in Newark, NewJersey, in 1924, Vaughan was immediately surrounded by music: his father was a carpenter, an amateur guitarist and her laundress mother was a church singer. become young Sarah studied piano at the age of seven years, and before entering his choir director and organist for the youth has been a soloist at the Mount Zion Baptist Church. When he was eighteen, he made friends of the famous amateur contest Wednesday night in Harlem Apollo Theater in force. It gave a sparkling performance of "Body and Soul" and won the first prize.In the audience that night was the singer Billy Eckstine. Six months later she was united in reliability Conte Eckstine Big Band with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. When Eckstine formed his own band was formed soon after Vaughan with him. Others, like Miles Davis and Art Blakey, were then join the band as well. Within a year, but Vaughan wanted to try a solo career. By the end of 1947 they top the charts with "Tenderly" and more in 1940, the...