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 ...

Recorded between January 1949 and January 1953, this compilation of fourteen romantic ballads by one of the word's greatest interpreters moves nice and slow. With the lush sounds of a full orchestra ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan (Eternal Source Of Light/!K7 Records) is totally different from its predecessor. It is a jazz album, unashamedly so, and brings to the fore Zara McFarlane as ...

Vaughan combined an operatic sense of drama and vocal control with an improviser's risk-taking. A newly released 1969 concert recording is an ambitious showcase of her pop and classical sensibilities.