The majority of the CDs I review are either new releases or recordings that reflect the current trends in popular music. These trends had their genesis in the amalgamation of African American music ...

Sarah Vaughan was already considered one of the greatest singers of her era when she signed with Mercury Records in 1954. She was given the charge to record jazz for the subsidiary EmArcy, pop for the ...

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 ...

Usually, an aging artist's last recording can make for a somber listening experience. The voice may be a shadow of what it once was, or the singer may try a genre that does not fit his/her style (e.g.

Vaughan had a gallery of vocal timbres: gravelly to silky, round or strident, white-gloved or blues-drenched. Her pitch range was operatic and her low notes have uncommon power. She drew inspiration ...

Right around the time that both Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday were both enjoying mainstream success, a young Sarah Vaughan was making her way into the US jazz scene. As a singer, she ...

Sassy. Most of the 12 songs portray true love as hopeless, women as doormats, and romance as fantasy and idealizing. Of course, this was before our more enlightened–and also cynical–age, pre-dating ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Like Vaughan, singer/songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway possesses one of those ...