Product Description

"Sassy" as Sarah Vaughan was lovingly called, is considered, along with Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee, one of the definitive, great women singers of jazz and popular music. She memorably began her career as pianist and vocalist with her lifelong fellow musician and friend Billy Eckstine. Before she died in 1990, she had recorded with many, many jazz greats including Count Basie, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, the legendary Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Benny Carter and Quincy Jones who said "…Sassy and Ella were "fire breathing monsters, they saw themselves as horns"

Sarah Vaughan, who was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1924 like Ella Fitzgerald, first came to attention when she won the Apollo Theatre Amateur Night in 1942. By 1950, she became a best selling recording artist with recordings like "Linger Awhile" and "You’re Mine You." and a millionaire, a rare achievement for a woman musician at that time. By the mid-1950s, she had million sellers including "Broken Hearted Melody." This concert taped in 1985, offers a rare recorded "in person" performance of Sarah Vaughan. It has never been seen before and gives us a wonderful opportunity to enjoy a happy, relaxed, warmly humorous and vocally supreme presentation by the great singer.Backed by a jazz trio, she sings several of her well known, classic songs including "Poor Butterfly," "East Of The Sun" as well as her two most identified songs "Misty" and Stephen Sondheim’s "Send In The Clowns."

This is an "ENCORE" concert that offers the great singer in a perfect wedding of a visual and song performance that was rarely captured during the unforgettable Sarah Vaughan’s musical lifetime.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #102813 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-08-30
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 52 minutes

Customer Reviews

Amazing!!!!
This is Sassy at a time in her life where she has reached legendary status. This performance in Conneticut was very well done!!! As always she has her trio and they are magnifiscent! She really gives a SHOW!! She plays with the audience and gives them everything they ask for! She makes the viewer feel the sense of seeing excellence, I feel that every Sass fan should own this DVD as well as the Chaka Khan concert with this series (Great Women Singers of the 20th Century). The song selection is superb! She opens with a scat medley with the base line of Marvin Gayes Inner City Blues-make me wanna Holla who else could do this and do it so well but the legendary Sarah Vaughan. This is a beautiful DVD, OWN IT!!!

a little dissapointing
I really was looking forward to this dvd, when it arrived I immediately wanted to see it...unfortunately is the quality not that great and even so the sound of this dvd...it looks like as if not a professional taped and recorded it...
I am a fan of sassy, I collected over the years almost all her recordings and now I am trying to get dvd's of her. Besides the lack of quality of this dvd its great to hear her, when you get used to the sound quality...Sass sings fantastic!! But be prepared for a dissapointed feeling when you order this dvd.

DIVINE ONE
She is just that. What control. What magic. And the definitive version of Send In The Clowns.