Sarah Vaughan - Live S'Wonderful Experience Unecessary

[yogivic]

when was this does anyone know??



[JAZZ8507]

music for the soul!!!

[jPapa2008]

so beautiful

[Jamesfisher0000]

Miss NEWARK NJ HERSELF!!!!!!! WHITNEY WHO????? NAH JUST JOKING!!!!

[MikeHudson65]

Miss Vaughan was so beautiful

[avesraggiana]

I can't help but notice that her "back-up dancers" are all white...how odd it looks now. And I'm willing to hazard that this video was shot during the Eisenhower era, a time when black performers had to enter through the service entrance even if they were giving a command performance at the White House. Sarah Vaughan would have to wait until the Johnson administration before being able to enter through the front doors of the White House, to give a command performance. Sorry, did I digress?

[jamesmaseobrown]

@avesraggiana

I don't think so cause I've noticed the same thing. It's just the times she grew up in. I don't think I was even born when this was done. It just goes to show you how good she was to be one of the few blacks to be showcased in this manner. She may have entered thru the servants entrance, but she's front and center here.

[avesraggiana]

@jamesmaseobrown "Front and Center here"...well said and very true. No matter how poorly White America treated black performers of her generation, there could never be any denying Sarah Vaughan's luminous and singular talent.

[photojimsf]

@avesraggiana -- I noticed also, well said. Love the dresses. We sure have come a long way, could anyone have imagined that we would have a Black president?

[ConundrumWyn]

@photojimsf you do now :)

[jimnick1]

Where does this clip come from? Regardless of whether "Esperience Unnecesary" is someone's favorite song, Sarah hated this kind of material and only recorded and performed it for cantractual reasons. She was  the jazz musician par excelence.

[jamesmaseobrown]

I got it from a DVD titled "Sarah Vaughan & other jazz Divas." I purchased it on Amazon.

I read somewhere that she didn't really care for these types of songs. However, she does such a damn good job of it.

[MusixMan81]

I see why she was called "Sassy" Sarah and Ella were at the top. Still there.

[VealParmigiana]

I like Sarah's Mercury recordings the best, and this is one of my favorite songs by her.

[rreettyyuull]

go head ms.sassy

[theblueangel28]

experience unnecessary is like my favorite song ive heard her do