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Sarah Vaughan
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Sarah Vaughan from Newark won a talent contest at the Apollo Theater in 1942. She sang in Earl Hines's big band, in which Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker also played, and later named those two as her most important teachers. She took the harmony and the lines of bebop into her singing. In 1945 she made Lover Man with Gillespie and Parker. Her voice had an enormous range, from deep to very high, and she could make it sound like an instrument. Her nickname was 'Sassy' or 'The Divine One'. Her 1954 album with the trumpeter Clifford Brown is regarded as a high point. She kept performing until the late 1980s.
Listening
Lover Man · Sarah Vaughan, 1945
Lullaby of Birdland · Sarah Vaughan, 1954
Misty · Sarah Vaughan, 1958
Discography
Studio albums
- 1950Sarah Vaughan
- 1954Images
- 1955Sarah Vaughan
- 1955In the Land of Hi-Fi
- 1955My Kinda Love
- 1955Sarah Vaughan
- 1955The Divine Sarah
- 1956At the Blue Note
- 1956Sassy
- 1957Sarah Vaughan
- 1957Sarah Vaughan
- 1957Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows
- 1957Wonderful Sarah
- 1958In a Romantic Mood
- 1958Vaughan and Violins
- 1959No Count Sarah
- 1959Sarah Vaughan
- 1960Close to You
- 1960Dreamy
- 1961After Hours
- 1961Sarah Vaughan
- 1961My Heart Sings
- 1961The Divine One
- 1962Sassy Meets Shearing!
- 1962Snowbound
- 1962Sweet, Sultry and Swinging
- 1962You’re Mine You
- 1963Sarah Vaughan
- 1963The Lonely Hours
- 1964Sweet ’n’ Sassy
- 1964Vaughan With Voices
- 1965¡Viva! Vaughan
- 1965Sarah + 2
- 1965Sarah Sings Soulfully
- 1965Sarah Vaughan
- 1966Pop Artistry
- 1966The New Scene
- 1967It’s a Man’s World
- 1967Sassy Swings Again
- 1971A Time
- 1972Feelin’ Good
- 1973Sings With the Hollywood All Stars
- 1974Come Out Swingin'
- 1974Sarah Vaughan
- 1974Send in the Clowns
- 1978How Long Has This Been Going On?
- 1978Sarah Vaughan
- 1980Duke Ellington Song Book, Volume 1
- 1980Duke Ellington Song Book, Volume 2
- 1981Copacabana
- 1981Songs of the Beatles
- 1982“Crazy and Mixed Up”
- 1985The Rodgers & Hart Songbook
- 1986Orchestra Arranged and Conducted by Michel Legrand
- 1987Brazilian Romance
- 1989Carols of Christmas
- 1990A Celebration of Duke
- 1990Sarah Vaughan
- 1990Sarah Vaughan
- 1990Sarah Vaughan
- 1990The Divine One
- 1990The George Gershwin Songbook, Volume 1
- 1990The George Gershwin Songbook, Volume 2
- 1991I've Got It Good
- 1991Sarah Slightly Classical
- 1992Sassy Sings and Swings
- 1992Time & Again
- 1993Bird on the Wing
- 1993It’s You or No One
- 1993Soft & Sassy
- 1994I Love Brazil!
- 1995Sophisticated Lady
- 1996Divine Sarah
- 1996Sweet Affection
- 1998Send in the Clowns
- 2002Forever Gold
- 2002I Grandi Del Jazz: Sara Vaughan
- 2002Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- 2002Swingin’ Ladies of Jazz
- 2002You’re Not That Kind
- 2003Sarah Vaughan
- 2005Sarah Vaughan
- 2005Shulie a Bop
- 2005With Clifford Brown: Complete Recordings
- 2006Sarah Vaughan
- 2007Lover Man
- 2021Our Kinda Love
- 2023Sarah Vaughan
- ?Diva of Jazz
- ?Feelings
- ?The Divine One
- ?These Foolish Things - Prelude To A Kiss
Other work
- 1954Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown
- 1958Misty
- 1973Live in Japan
In School of Rock
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- Jazz MapNL Map
- After Hours: Session 2NL Reader
- After Hours: Session 4NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- Vocal jazz Genre
Sarah Vaughan brought the harmonies of bebop into her singing.