Track Listing

1. A Taste Of Honey
2. What Kind Of Fool Am I?
3. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
4. Sermonette
5. In Love In Vain
6. Gravy Waltz
7. The Good Life
8. Moanin'
9. 'Round Midnight
10. Easy Street
11. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
12. Midnight Sun

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10396 in Music
• Released on: 1993-01-26
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Sassy's years on the Roulette label (1960-64) have been called the legendary singer's finest hour, a time when Vaughan's musicality merged exquisitely with her unbridled vocal ardor to achieve the sublime. Sarah Sings Soulfully, recorded at the close of that period, stands as a stunning testament to this claim--a divine collection of tracks that reveals an artist staking her soul on the rendering of each and every note, as well as the silences between them. Seductively spare, luxuriously poignant, and achingly honest all at the same time, Vaughan's vocals careen incandescently through the 12 standards presented here, swooping, sighing, and soaring with an intensity that remains unparalleled to this day. Listen to her reading of the "Just let our love take wing" line on the version of Monk's "'Round Midnight" found here: the fat, luscious drop of the word "just," the long fermata on "love," and the dip and swell that pulls the phrase forward on "take." It's a moment of revelation--and incredibly, only one among the many that shimmer throughout this collection. --Sylvia W. Chan

Customer Reviews

sarah's soul still singing
the cd has allowed me to continue to know and touch sassy sarah as she spreads her soulful singing across our mutual worlds.

One of Sarah's Best!
This album is truly an inspired effort, the fidelity is good and listening to it gave me several of those "Sarah" moments where a chill goes down your spine and your heart melts. As afficiandos know some of Sarah's stuff is low fidelity, you have heard other places or is from the waning years of her career where there was a drop off. This is a great CD!

Beware: More pop than Jazz
I disagree with most of the reviews of this album. Many of the tunes are more pop or soul that Jazz and sung very "straight". The sound of the voice is of course glorious, but there's very little sense that she is actually inhabiting the songs in many cases. The result is a sense of highly skilled but emotionally impersonal delivery. "'Round Midnight" is a striking exception; the majority of performances on this are just not very Jazzy. The accompaniment is rather drab for the most part and the organ playing in particular is third-rate at best. After reading all the rave reviews I thought I couldn't miss with this, but if you prefer Sarah Vaughan the Jazz singer, you might want to skip this one, which was apparently produced with an eye to appealing to the middle of the road.