Referred to as a Jazz singer, Sarah Vaughan exhibits her all-rounded musical personality in her renowned album Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown. Although the title indicates that the album features influential trumpeter Clifford Brown, the singer is the indisputable focus, who enjoys accompaniments by a small, compact group of instrumentalists. Clifford Brown, also known as Brownie, with his restrained, graceful delivery, shares equal parts of solo with tenor saxophonist Paul Quinichette and flutist Herbie Mann in most of the songs . His status among the instrumentalists was not accentuated when the album was recorded in the December of 1954.
The original LP consists of nine tracks, including several classic Jazz standards with new attempts combining voice and instruments, two little-recorded Jazz songs and two pop ballads. Vaughan’s identity as a Jazz singer was not always clear. Actually, in 1953, Sarah signed two contracts with Mercury – one with Mercury itself to sing pops and another one with their subsidiary label EmArcy to sing
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Accompanied only by the piano and the light sound of the drum, Sarah presents her moving voice with sophisticated techniques in Embraceable You. Her thick low notes, combining with heartfelt vibrato at the end of the phrases, makes you feel a sense of tenderness and sublime. After Jimmy Jones’ solo, her singing reaches a higher level. That “above” and the long note on “do” are her very moment of maternity. When she sings, you really believe that there are warm arms around you. September Song shows Sarah’s brilliant techniques on high notes. This song gives solo opportunities to the horns, but they do not hog the spotlight. Paul Quinichette and Clifford Brown play plain solo. The flute solo here sounds clumsy and the noise of air is a bit annoying. To be honest, only Sarah’s bluesy treatment add value to the
The name of the music singer was Lauren Lark. According to the show program, Lauren brought the bright women music between the 1940’s and 1950’s into the 20th century. Lauren has completed her Bachelor in music performance at the University of the Arts, where she received the desirable Best Jazz vocalist. Lauren was made a history as the only vocalist to perform with the Reginal Grammy Award. She was a librettist and the singer. During the show performance, Lauren has sung so many works by the local and the international women artist. The show was started with an introduction, welcome the guest and the bright women in the music by professor Carol Evans.
Nowadays, people know Caesar Rodney’s name because of the school district. But exactly how many know who Caesar Rodney was and what he did for Delaware? Born in 1728 in Dover, Rodney was the eldest of eight children. He attended the Latin School in Philadelphia and went on to hold many important government jobs. Rodney didn’t let his asthma or cancer affect his career, often putting his own needs off to continue serving his people. Perhaps his greatest achievements included delegate to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Though he had an informal education, he became one of the most important men in Delaware’s history.
Pianist and singer, Sarah Lois Vaughan is an artist for the ages. She was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 27, 1924. (Giddens) Vaughan was a feisty performer and a profound artist. Because of this she would earn two nicknames in her career, “Sassy” due to her personality and “the Divine One” because of her wonderful art. (Gridley) Sarah Vaughan was a captivating virtuoso, performer, artist, and woman and the achievements of her life are testimonial to that claim.
Imagine if you will, the sultry lounge music of Stan Kenton, George Shearing, Nat King Cole or Frank Sinatra that emanated
Waters began recording with Black Swan Records and later released a record with two sides, “Oh Daddy” and “Down Home Blues”. Only six months after the record had been out over 500,000 copies were sold and Waters had also collabed with pianist Fletcher Henderson. The duo was so successful that they toured the South, making history as the first black musicians to broadcast on the
She then formed her own group, Rainey and Rainey, the Assassinators of the Blues. After the Blues genre became more popular during the 1920’s, she started recording for Paramount Studios, and worked with some of the most famous musicians of the time, include Louis Armstrong, and Lovie Austin, as well as Fletcher Henderson. Between 1923 and 1928, she recorded more than a hundred songs, making her one of the most recorded female artists of her
Billie’s Blues was recorded by American Jazz musician singer and songwriter Eleanora Fagan Gough professionally acknowledged as Billie Holiday in 1936 and released 1999. As a teen, Holiday started singing in clubs in Harlem. Holiday's creativeness of tunes to fit the desire was new. Somewhere in the middle of the twentieth century, Brazilian and Cuban musical influences could be heard in Jazz. It's what I think of as essential singing, something nature herself had brought together and made it well-organized to make the greatest human of cries. She had a worthy intellect of poetic content at her undeveloped age. Listening to her music Holiday had an inspiring impact on jazz music and modern singing when it comes to the Expression, Performing forces and Rhythm of her piece.
The blues emerged as a distinct African-American musical form in the early twentieth century. It typically employed a twelve-bar framework and three-lined stanzas; its roots are based in early African-American songs, such as field hollers and work songs, and generally have a melancholy mood. The blues can be divided into many sub-genres, including Classical, Country, and Urban. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the careers of two of Classical blues most influential and legendary singers: Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith.
Meanwhile, Fitzgerald had begun to work with Norman Granz, the impresario of a popular series called "Jazz at the Philharmonic." In 1955, she was the first artist signed to Granz's new record label, Verve, and began recording a series of "songbook" albums. The first offering, a two-record set entitled Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook (1956) led to eight other songbooks, each devoted to the work of a particular composer or composing team: Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer, Rodgers and Hart, and George and Ira Gershwin. The
The bulk of these recordings can be found on the Verve record label. He can also be heard on a live Verve LP called Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl as recorded in the mid-1950s. Although his Blueberry Hill and Hello Dolly were big pop hits at the end of his career they offer little for jazz and swing music fans. A more interesting and representative pop recording from his latter career would be A Kiss to Build a Dream On arranged by Sy Oliver and another
What is remarkable about Four Women is the skillful yet overt approach to dealing with a sensitive construct. The song is
Smith remained popular throughout the rest of the 1920’s and maintained an active schedule of touring and recording. Most of her releases were credited to either “Bessie Smith and Her Blue Boys” or “Bessie with Her Band,” (NNDB). Other than being a vocalist, Bessie was still apart of vaudeville and musical comedy. She performed in “Mississippi Days” in 1927 and the “Jazz Regiment and “Late Hour Dancers” in 1929. Her first and only screen appearance also took place in 1929, she starred in “St. Louis Blues,” a short film that was given a critical reception (NNDB).
“Blue Skies” was written into the second act. The song’s introduction was made even more memorable by the fact that Ms. Baker forgot the lyrics, and Irving Berlin himself sang them from the front row. 1930s/40s Swing Time Notable Performers Ella Fitzgerald Frank Sinatra Willie
Young Goodman Brown," written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is the story of a young Christian mans struggle between good versus evil, and the loss of his innocence. All of us harbor a propensity for evil regardless of the mask that we put on for society.
Comprehending her lyrics, one may perceive from the understanding that her intended audience is actually anyone who may be feeling the same way as her and the effect in which she wishes to have upon them is to be like her in the