One of the most beautiful jazz tunes ever sung by one of the best singers ever, there is nothing more to be said. What a fantastic range ...with so much control.
Sarah has one of the most moving voices I have EVER heard!! I ADORE her and this song is so amazing. Her and Billie are my most favorite:) I am a huge jazz lover and their voices bring jazz alive for me...
There needs to be a "LOVE" button as "like" is so insufficient for this. Such ease, elegance and clarity in her honest voice that breathes the meaning of each and every word that passes her lips.
Absolutely gorgeous. I have the DVD 'Sarah Vaughan, the devine one' on which there are some marvellous footage of her concerts but where can I get the videos/DVD's of those concerts? Does anybody know?
shut the hell up all of you idiots you can't compare amy to her inspirations, she's got her own completely different style! and this is beside the point sarah is amazing :') even with a cold ! I love it how she jumps into the song so flawlessly ahhhh goujkdfv she's so cute
@bolder2009 Amy winehouse was one they mentioned and she was extremely talented so much so that she deserves a spot next to Ella and Sarah please don't ignore talent just because of Amys shattered personal life
@buffalmacco76 Listen to her album frank. She's versatile, and very talented as a writer whom wrote from her personal experiences. That actually makes her superior in certain ways because the classics didn't write all of even most of their hits.
Notice how she seems a bit shy and unsure while talking to the audience..But the minute she starts singing there is no doubt that the lady is in control! What an amazing talent!
@ChloeCharleslovesyoo Duh back at you. Anita has to be one of the most overrated singers of the 80's - but yes, I've heard her mention Sarah's influence. She also was in attendance at Sarah's funeral - I give her that because many others weren't there.
Great accompanist Kirk Stuart, piano Charles Williams on Bass and George hughes, drums, wonderful arranging by Quincy Jones. All to set off Ms. Vaughan's magnificent instrument.
Sarah could have been an opera singer easily if she'd wanted to go that route. I'm forever grateful she chose jazz. Her voice is an amazing force! It exerted so much energy on her when she used it, that she worked up a sweat. Wow.
One more thing ... :) Because of how utterly perfect her pitch ALWAYS is, no matter what tonality, what vowel, what voice (head/chest), or what vocal effect she chooses to employ, you have this ease or this sense that you can just RELAX and follow the line she's drawing. You don't have this 'inner critic' that's waiting to cringe because you occasionally hear notes that are a little bit off. Not sure how else to describe it, but you trust her SO MUCH that you just fall in to the music.
I was 19 when Misty came out by Johnny Mathis and the Divine One and I then favored Matthis and convinced me partner that Johnny was better but I was wrong!
she does this very often and it kills me. She talks to the audience and plays around with them and then unexpectedly she breaks into song. When she does it here, I was blown the fuck away how it just flowed out so smoothly and ribbon-like
The Divineone with kirk Stuart on piano and Buster Williams on bass. i don't know the drummer, but he is holding it down. It takes special accompanist to go at the slooooooow tempo Sarah uses that allows her to truly show her magnificant vocal instrument.
I just watched this about 10 times, emailed it, and shared it on facebook.
I am a professional singer and I hated this song till I heard sarah do it. this is not the live version which turned me around, but it's very close, and i am very grateful to hear it. I will be adding it to my revised pad very soon.
but, thanks for sharing this - I can't believe she is being so coy - a side I hadn't seen before - I am in love (all over again!)
Here is the apex of live art. Even with a cold, Vaughan shows she can do A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G she wishes: vocally, musically, artistically. That she wields this stratospheric ability with such grace and natural sensuality is even more remarkable. And what an ear. To be great is to be truly unique while at the same time connecting deeply with everyone at an unspoken level. In this seemingly obscure performance of an old standard more than 40 years ago, Sarah Vaughan defines greatness. Period.
@music1831 I think its too simplistic to compare some of those names you mentioned to legends like Sassy, Ella & Billie. You can hear the difference in quality, technique & taste. They were unique pioneers! How about the 'media hype' propaganda stick to what they know instead of making comparisons that don't stack up. Great artists like Nancy 'Baby' Wilson, with a body of exceptional work since the late 50's, are overlooked. In the words of Nickolas Ashford, "Ain't nothing like the real thing!"
@music1831 I disagree:I definitely consider Amy to be up there with Sarah, Ella, Dinah, Billie etc... obviously Sarah shines out with her instrument of a voice, but you shouldn't dismiss Amy simply because she happens to be more recent.
@Alexdurrant7 Amy was a GREAT talent and her impact on this generation is undeniable, but unfortunately Amy has too many poor live performances to be even in the conversation with Ella and Sarah. I was fortunate to see Amy live, early in her career when she was singing Jazz, before she was famous. That was when her voice was at its sharpest. She is closer to Dinah, but not Ella and Sarah. Billie, Ella & Sarah are the pinnacle. They set the bar so high and still remain unsurpassed.
@Alexdurrant7 I mean the body of work of those artists is so vast in quantity and quality. Theres so many masterpiece recordings that its staggering to comprehend. Also they were pioneers and innovators. They are the template. They were of the golden age of that music. They worked with the greatest Jazz musicians and arrangers in history. They were the standard in an era of many great stars. Before you even get to them you have to consider a lot of great talent.
@Alexdurrant7 Also technically, Sarah Vaughan is a different league. She had inarguably the greatest vocal instrument in Jazz history. Ella had the most perfect intonation, pitch and unlimited improvisational ability. A flawless voice. The best I've ever heard. She is the greatest exponent of Scat singing and what's known as Swing. She recorded the definitive renditions of the American popular song. Billie is the greatest Jazz artist that ever lived. Many imitators, but its not the same thing.
@bolder2009 Just out of curiosity, you described Sarah Vaughan's voice as the greatest vocal instrument in jazz history, described Ella as having perfect intonation, pitch, scat & other improvisation skills, but then go on to call Billie the greatest jazz artist that ever lived without listing any of Billie's qualities at all. I agree that Billie was amazing, but why do you personally think she belongs in the same ranks as Sarah and Ella? What definable qualities does she have as an artist?
@Alexdurrant7 Because I didn't want to get into a long yarn about Billie Holiday. She is part of the vocabulary of Jazz, so I naturally assumed you might be familiar with some of her body of work such as Strange Fruit and some of the other popular songs associated with her. Its rudimentary. They are the three Jazz singers that defined the artform. Billie's style was derived from the primary innovator of Jazz singing, Louis Armstrong. Her sense of time, her delivery, her sound is Jazz.
@bolder2009 I'm very familiar with Billie's music, I was just wondering why you felt you had to describe the qualities that made Sarah & Ella amazing jazz singers, but then give the crown to Billie without any justification.
@Alexdurrant7 Compared to Ella who used to go on tour 50 out of 52 weeks a year whilst still turning out performances of the highest order. Sarah's voice was still as incredible towards the end of her life after 50 years. That's the consistency that Amy didn't have. Her performances suffered far too soon in her career. Like I suggested, check out 'Brazilian Romance' and marvel that the old Sarah Vaughan released that masterpiece months before she passed away in 1990.
@bolder2009 Ella didn't have to deal with the same problems as Amy did, though. To my knowledge, Ella never suffered drug or alcohol addiction which, as we all well know, impeded Amy's output and some of her live performances. Also, lots of Amy's time was spent on songwriting, which she said was very time-consuming. Ella had them handed to her on a plate. Amy once spent a year working on a single song. In terms of ability and vocal tonal quality, Amy is definitely up there with the others.
@Alexdurrant7 Ella was orphaned at a young age, was taken into care where she suffered abuse, eventually was homeless on the streets as a teenage girl, tap dancing for tips and lose change in an period of American history which didn't offer much prospects for an African American. Its an insult to suggest that Amy had far more to deal with.
@Alexdurrant7 As I said before in that era there were virtually no major singers who wrote their own songs. Its just the way it was. That accounts for why that era produced what is considered the golde age of American popular songs. You had all the great broadway songwriting teams of that era like the Gershwin brothers, Rogers & Hammerstein, Irvin Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern etc and of course composers like Duke Ellington and his collaborator Billy Strayhorn.
@Alexdurrant7 You either song, or you composed. That's just how it was. Some composers occasionally recorded some of their material like the great Fats Waller who was an entertainer and Cole Porter, but it was very rare. Most lables didn't go for that. The change really began in the 40's when R&B/pre rock artists like Louis Jordan were writing and performing their own hits but it wasn't the norm till the 60's
@Alexdurrant7 Amy's life ended in a similar way to her idol Dinah Washington who died at the age of 33. And of course Billie Holiday's life ended prematurely under tragic circumstances that have sometimes been glamourised. The notion of the tragic artist who flew too close to the Sun like Icarus.
@Alexdurrant7 Well I agree that Amy had the ability and tonal quality to be a Jazz great, but to put her next to the legacy of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan is wide off the mark. Its just so many factors. I mean Ella recorded over 200 albums. There so many amazing albums. I've been building up my collection for half my life and I'm still discovering more amazing music. In all that time, I've been constantly amazed that I haven't heard a bad album. The level she maintained...
@Alexdurrant7 "With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me." - Frank Sinatra
@Alexdurrant7 Billie is the essence of Jazz music. With Billie you hear the connection with the blues but the style was new. It was an original style of phrasing like a horn. There was her sense of time, which was deliberate, and the emotional content. Its subjective but the raw power and ability to move the listener in a style that was so unique, has seen many imitators over the decades till now. She took tin pan alley songs that were rejected and turned them into timeless classics.
@Alexdurrant7 Amy was more a hybrid of Jazz, Blues and Soul, which is why she is closer to the type of artist that Dinah Washington was, who was also a hybrid of Jazz, Blues and early R&B. And Amy herself acknowledged that Dinah was her biggest inspiration not just musically but in terms of her character and attitude as an artist and performer. One of Amy's favourite albums of alltime was Dinah Washington's 'Drinking Again'. You can hear a bit of Dinah in some of Amy's performances.
@Alexdurrant7 I find it strange how some Amy Winehouse fans think she belongs in the company of legends like Ella, whose career spanned almost 60 years of excellence. And Sarah Vaughan, whose voice showed no signs of deterioration in her old age in a career that spanned five decades. Listen to her last album 'Brazilian Romance', and her voice was still flawless as if untouched by time. You have to understand the magnitude of those artists before you throw names about.
@bolder2009 You really need to calm down. I don't mind whether you find it strange about Winehouse or not. You have the credibility the size of a mite.
@XforeverlongingX My credibility is no greater or less than yours so thats besides the point. I don't need to calm down. This is a comment section incase you haven't noticed. If you can't deal with that then that's your problem.
@bolder2009 Your thinking is being dominated and twisted by your unhinged emotions. That's why I wrote calm down. I like Winehouse's voice SEPARATE from her personal life. You DO know that Sarah was a druggy too right? So was Holiday, Etta James, Dinah Washington, etc.
@XforeverlongingX Yeah its nothing new. Many of the Jazz legends were addicts at one point or another. Even Satchmo loved his weed. And my emotions are not unhinged. Stick to what know.
@bolder2009 I understand the magnitude of those artists, so try to be a little less patronising. Sarah and Ella had hugely long careers, whilst Amy didn't - however, Amy achieved just as much in the short space of time she was with us as Sarah and Ella did in the same space of time. It's hardly fair to compare their careers outright - we have to think about it in terms of proportion.
@Alexdurrant7 Just as much?? Ok you said I shouldn't patronise you, so I won't even get into it, but to say Amy achieved just as much without backing that up is a ridiculous statment to make. Two albums, one hailed as a classic and a hit and miss live performance history is equal to what Ella accomplished in her career? Wow.
@bolder2009 You didn't read my comment. Ella's career spanned more than 50 years, Amy's spanned around 3 (if we just look at her album-producing periods of time). We need to think in terms of proportion rather than expecting somebody in a just a few years to have achieved the same or more than somebody else in their 50 year career. Also, which live performance are you talking about? She did hundreds.
@Alexdurrant7 I understood what you meant the first time. Two albums doesn't suggest that she would have maintained the calibre of great art. Back To Black is not even a Jazz album. Its a hybrid of Motown influenced R&B, Blues, Ska and Jazz and the Phil Spector sound. 'Frank' is a Jazz/HipHop hybrid album. Erykah Badu did that back in 97 with her classic debut album 'Baduzim'. It was a new sound back then because of the HipHop element. You can also hear that Baduzim sound on 'Halftime'.
@XforeverlongingX The first major vocal Jazz/Hiphop record was Baduzim (Guru's Jazzmatazz doesn't count). Along with D'Angelo's Brown Sugar, it was a game changer. Amy was aiming to make a Jazz/HipHop record with Frank, and Baduzim was the blue print. Its very obvious from the demo's. Even the track 'Halftime' which was recorded in 2002 bares the influence of Baduzim. Its common knowledge that Erykah Badu was a big influence on her first album, and she made that clear in her early interviews.
@Alexdurrant7 So her recording legacy is essentially a retrogressive take on what has already been done before. What stands out is that she was able to capture the sound, the soulful depth of her singing, and the brilliance of her songwriting. But her live performances from were hit and miss. Jazz artists are not elitests but they pride themselves on the proficiency of their performances. Amy was sometimes so off, that it was embarrasing. She didn't always deliver in her short career.
@bolder2009 What a mindless point. Do you think you're being insightful by arguing that there are retrospective elements (which is actually also true for literary legend) at the base of her success? The fact is she was inspired as they all were (Holiday, et al didn't write their classic hit songs should we slam them for being less than artistic than Amy in that way? perhaps so) by others stylistically and lyrically.
@Alexdurrant7 Also about those artists not writing there own songs. You have to understand that in that era, virtually no singer wrote their own songs. That didn't happen much until the Rock era. Most lables would never have allowed it. Sinatra didn't write songs but he didn't need to. He was a master interpreter, and the best songwriters would hope for him to record their songs. That's how they knew they'd made it to the top. Same, with Billie, Ella and the rest.
@Alexdurrant7 Of course there were exceptions like traditional Delta Blues singers who wrote and played their own stuff. And Billie Holdiay wrote a number of classics, including some of the greatest Jazz standards such as 'Billie's Blues' and 'God Bless The Child'. Peggy Lee wrote some amazing things. Nat King Cole also wrote a number of classics when he was with his trio. But artists writing their own songs didn't become the norm till the 60's. Even the Beatles began as covers band.
@Alexdurrant7 Also Sarah was a great pianist who could play any song she performed. Early in her career she was had a short stint as the second pianist in the legendary Earl Hines big band. She was a pure, highly skilled musician, and part of what made her an innovative Jazz singer was her theorectcal knowledge of how the songs were created. She would take the songs apart and then put them back together in a unique way.
One of the most beautiful jazz tunes ever sung by one of the best singers ever, there is nothing more to be said. What a fantastic range ...with so much control.
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Sarah has one of the most moving voices I have EVER heard!! I ADORE her and this song is so amazing. Her and Billie are my most favorite:) I am a huge jazz lover and their voices bring jazz alive for me...
SoulfulAsylum 1 week ago
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Always start suddenly. Is it jazz style? or her original way of singing? I just curious about because i like it.
summeryayi 1 week ago
Damn, I want one of those colds. Sarah, Ella, Billie, too bad they don't make 'em like that anymore.
bromixsr 2 weeks ago
Sarah was the first version of "Misty" that I heard. . .and it got me hooked to the sounds of Sarah, Ella, and Billie. Beautiful voices.
Lexee24 3 weeks ago
even with a cold, she does an amazing job of singing this great song!
10skylark 3 weeks ago
I like it, I love this song!!!
MrNestorSantana 3 weeks ago
Beautiful woman!
bornlikethis1 1 month ago
I forgot how much I love this women
talkindurinthemovie 1 month ago
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OMGoodness! I can't hear any TRACE of a cold! If she can sing like this with a cold..IMAGINE without one!
rockdiva888 1 month ago
OMGoodness! I can't hear any TRACE of a cold! If she can sing like this with a cold..IMAGINE without one!
rockdiva888 1 month ago
Wow! Simply sublime.
Girlshine 1 month ago
perfect
stosiedem 1 month ago
OMG! How cute. Ah Miss Sarah, your music will live on forever.
joninehritamusic 1 month ago
There needs to be a "LOVE" button as "like" is so insufficient for this. Such ease, elegance and clarity in her honest voice that breathes the meaning of each and every word that passes her lips.
dancesprite 1 month ago
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dancesprite 1 month ago
Absolutely gorgeous. I have the DVD 'Sarah Vaughan, the devine one' on which there are some marvellous footage of her concerts but where can I get the videos/DVD's of those concerts? Does anybody know?
shirl1pete2 1 month ago
Art of the highest form....the voice of God!
cosmo9287 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
shut the hell up all of you idiots you can't compare amy to her inspirations, she's got her own completely different style! and this is beside the point sarah is amazing :') even with a cold ! I love it how she jumps into the song so flawlessly ahhhh goujkdfv she's so cute
RemyMckenzie 2 months ago
from 1 to ten , this is a 100
cykirk2010 2 months ago
Thank you for this music. The best version of Misty by anyone, including Johnny.
cosmo9287 2 months ago
@bolder2009 Amy winehouse was one they mentioned and she was extremely talented so much so that she deserves a spot next to Ella and Sarah please don't ignore talent just because of Amys shattered personal life
XforeverlongingX 2 months ago
@XforeverlongingX Where is the talent in winehouse? Blind blind people....
buffalmacco76 2 months ago
@buffalmacco76 Listen to her album frank. She's versatile, and very talented as a writer whom wrote from her personal experiences. That actually makes her superior in certain ways because the classics didn't write all of even most of their hits.
XforeverlongingX 2 months ago
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bolder2009 2 months ago
@buffalmacco76 You don't "see" talent in singers, you hear it, being blind or not is irrelevant
XforeverlongingX 2 months ago
@XforeverlongingX blind blind people...and boring.
buffalmacco76 2 months ago
@buffalmacco76 You really are one of less highly functioning primates aren't you?
XforeverlongingX 2 months ago
@XforeverlongingX ...boring, boring, boring
buffalmacco76 2 months ago
OMG Thank You!
beforeourveryeyes 2 months ago
One of the greatest vibratos period!
CCBaby 2 months ago
to the one person who dislike this ...may you rot in hell !
ahfaxthis 2 months ago
She is so good , it brings tears to my eyes , I don't know why ? , I think I feel blessed to have heard her voice.
cykirk2010 2 months ago
AHHHHHHHHHHHH SARAH ! JUST ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL ...A SOOTHER TO THE SOUL !
autumneyes1 2 months ago
damn, woman! i'm getting misty just watching this!
housedubs1 2 months ago
Wonderful as always!! I love Sassy, & who is that playing the drums?
kittylexus 2 months ago
Ever since the first time I heard her stunningly beautiful voice, I have never been the same. Just amazing.
MamaLovestheBlues 3 months ago
thankyou sassie
MrFalconford 3 months ago
Notice how she seems a bit shy and unsure while talking to the audience..But the minute she starts singing there is no doubt that the lady is in control! What an amazing talent!
garymichael1950 3 months ago 10
sounds like Anita...well Anita sounds like her...great
crunkface11 3 months ago
Sassy was definitely Anita Baker's inspiration. I can hear it. I love Sarah
ChloeCharleslovesyoo 3 months ago
@ChloeCharleslovesyoo Anita Baker? Anita might be inspired but her voice is nothing like Sarah's. Eww.
TruthSerum101 2 months ago
@TruthSerum101 reread what i wrote. duh
ChloeCharleslovesyoo 2 months ago
@ChloeCharleslovesyoo Duh back at you. Anita has to be one of the most overrated singers of the 80's - but yes, I've heard her mention Sarah's influence. She also was in attendance at Sarah's funeral - I give her that because many others weren't there.
TruthSerum101 2 months ago
@TruthSerum101 oh ok...
ChloeCharleslovesyoo 2 months ago
MicRichy, you hit it right. This sister performed the lyrics with such grace and composure.
ewhitebrit 3 months ago
i am sitting here and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy
Pollewopwop 3 months ago
Great accompanist Kirk Stuart, piano Charles Williams on Bass and George hughes, drums, wonderful arranging by Quincy Jones. All to set off Ms. Vaughan's magnificent instrument.
nancydrew5 3 months ago
Zip...The greatest of all time and I've heard them all for over 60 years.That 3 octave voicebox will never be dublicated again.
pjdextraze 3 months ago
Sarah could have been an opera singer easily if she'd wanted to go that route. I'm forever grateful she chose jazz. Her voice is an amazing force! It exerted so much energy on her when she used it, that she worked up a sweat. Wow.
nancydrew5 3 months ago
THE GREATEST!!!!!
MoBetta11 3 months ago
So Beautiful!!!
susisilv 3 months ago
a divine cold! thanks for uploading!
johannes51 4 months ago
Music is Jazz, Sarah is the voice of Jazz, the precious geme ever. Really thank you for this precious video too!
MISTY637 4 months ago
i love this song...
LadzMalayangPinoy 4 months ago
One word......Magnificent, such a beautiful and moving voice...amazing x
Cappella21 4 months ago
One more thing ... :) Because of how utterly perfect her pitch ALWAYS is, no matter what tonality, what vowel, what voice (head/chest), or what vocal effect she chooses to employ, you have this ease or this sense that you can just RELAX and follow the line she's drawing. You don't have this 'inner critic' that's waiting to cringe because you occasionally hear notes that are a little bit off. Not sure how else to describe it, but you trust her SO MUCH that you just fall in to the music.
MicRichy1 4 months ago 2
this is her with a cold? this woman is unbelievable!
noshyosh 4 months ago 5
I was 19 when Misty came out by Johnny Mathis and the Divine One and I then favored Matthis and convinced me partner that Johnny was better but I was wrong!
FRANKHODGES39 4 months ago
She has a cold and sings this way , my god !
cykirk2010 4 months ago
5:16 holy shit, that ending is amazing
XforeverlongingX 5 months ago
This is the best singer who ever lived. I can't put it any other way
XforeverlongingX 5 months ago 3
she does this very often and it kills me. She talks to the audience and plays around with them and then unexpectedly she breaks into song. When she does it here, I was blown the fuck away how it just flowed out so smoothly and ribbon-like
XforeverlongingX 5 months ago 4
Flawless !!!!
anilec8588 5 months ago
love how she ended that last and 'too much' with a (sounded like a dominant blues chord
nancydrew5 6 months ago
The Divineone with kirk Stuart on piano and Buster Williams on bass. i don't know the drummer, but he is holding it down. It takes special accompanist to go at the slooooooow tempo Sarah uses that allows her to truly show her magnificant vocal instrument.
nancydrew5 6 months ago 2
I love her sfm. She's perfect.
stayrussh 6 months ago
Thank you for posting. She's incomprable (even with a cold).
jaybrank 6 months ago
thank you for uploading this
honeybee7700 6 months ago
That voice! Oh, goddamn, I love Sarah Vaughan.
unclealand 6 months ago
I'd rather hear Sarah Vaughan fart than hear Lady Gaga try to sing.
bouncedrealitycheck 6 months ago 6
I adore this woman! The wonderful Sarah Vaughan.
reviewsvoiceontube 7 months ago
Just Simply Fabulous.......Sassy Sarah!!!....I got Misty Just watching this superb performance!!!!
@MicRichy1...You left nothing else to be said!!!!
@TheCmeljazzman Rhank you so much for the upload of Gem!!!!! 5*****!!!!!
pumkin1785 9 months ago
@pumkin1785 .....................Me Toooooooooo! I'm balling my eye's out! The rhythm section is flawless as well!
NativeBostonianKP 6 months ago
Vaughan is a great singer. Congratulations for this video!!!
MrRosane82 10 months ago
thanks TheCmeljazzman,
I just watched this about 10 times, emailed it, and shared it on facebook.
I am a professional singer and I hated this song till I heard sarah do it. this is not the live version which turned me around, but it's very close, and i am very grateful to hear it. I will be adding it to my revised pad very soon.
but, thanks for sharing this - I can't believe she is being so coy - a side I hadn't seen before - I am in love (all over again!)
thanks again
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brixtonbluebeat 10 months ago 2
@brixtonbluebeat - Ms Vaughan made ALL of the "Tin Pan Alley" tunes amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NativeBostonianKP 6 months ago
LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
brixtonbluebeat 10 months ago
Met her in the afternoon in 1964 and had dinner with her with my grandfather- she has a voice, oh what a memory.
BertieTheBunyip1 10 months ago
vaughan glistening with sweat as she sings along, perfectly misty.
Aberakkrombie 1 year ago
P.S. I'm not sure there is a better example of what it means to possesss total/complete/effortless COMMAND of the vocal instrument anywhere.
MicRichy1 1 year ago 26
Here is the apex of live art. Even with a cold, Vaughan shows she can do A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G she wishes: vocally, musically, artistically. That she wields this stratospheric ability with such grace and natural sensuality is even more remarkable. And what an ear. To be great is to be truly unique while at the same time connecting deeply with everyone at an unspoken level. In this seemingly obscure performance of an old standard more than 40 years ago, Sarah Vaughan defines greatness. Period.
MicRichy1 1 year ago 21
@MicRichy1
So well said. I feel the same way about this particular performance. . .
nickiperk 4 months ago
@MicRichy1 How can anyone possibly sing that great?It can't be done,unless of course you are Sarah Vaughan.
Pure genius & up there with i think Ella,Carmen McRae & Billie Holliday.
When you listen to the female singers of today like Amy Winehouse,Lady Ga Fa you realise how good the singers of Sarah's era were.
music1831 2 months ago
@music1831 I think its too simplistic to compare some of those names you mentioned to legends like Sassy, Ella & Billie. You can hear the difference in quality, technique & taste. They were unique pioneers! How about the 'media hype' propaganda stick to what they know instead of making comparisons that don't stack up. Great artists like Nancy 'Baby' Wilson, with a body of exceptional work since the late 50's, are overlooked. In the words of Nickolas Ashford, "Ain't nothing like the real thing!"
bolder2009 2 months ago
@music1831 I disagree:I definitely consider Amy to be up there with Sarah, Ella, Dinah, Billie etc... obviously Sarah shines out with her instrument of a voice, but you shouldn't dismiss Amy simply because she happens to be more recent.
Alexdurrant7 2 months ago
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@Alexdurrant7 Amy was a GREAT talent and her impact on this generation is undeniable, but unfortunately Amy has too many poor live performances to be even in the conversation with Ella and Sarah. I was fortunate to see Amy live, early in her career when she was singing Jazz, before she was famous. That was when her voice was at its sharpest. She is closer to Dinah, but not Ella and Sarah. Billie, Ella & Sarah are the pinnacle. They set the bar so high and still remain unsurpassed.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@Alexdurrant7 I mean the body of work of those artists is so vast in quantity and quality. Theres so many masterpiece recordings that its staggering to comprehend. Also they were pioneers and innovators. They are the template. They were of the golden age of that music. They worked with the greatest Jazz musicians and arrangers in history. They were the standard in an era of many great stars. Before you even get to them you have to consider a lot of great talent.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@Alexdurrant7 Also technically, Sarah Vaughan is a different league. She had inarguably the greatest vocal instrument in Jazz history. Ella had the most perfect intonation, pitch and unlimited improvisational ability. A flawless voice. The best I've ever heard. She is the greatest exponent of Scat singing and what's known as Swing. She recorded the definitive renditions of the American popular song. Billie is the greatest Jazz artist that ever lived. Many imitators, but its not the same thing.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@bolder2009 Just out of curiosity, you described Sarah Vaughan's voice as the greatest vocal instrument in jazz history, described Ella as having perfect intonation, pitch, scat & other improvisation skills, but then go on to call Billie the greatest jazz artist that ever lived without listing any of Billie's qualities at all. I agree that Billie was amazing, but why do you personally think she belongs in the same ranks as Sarah and Ella? What definable qualities does she have as an artist?
Alexdurrant7 2 months ago
@Alexdurrant7 Because I didn't want to get into a long yarn about Billie Holiday. She is part of the vocabulary of Jazz, so I naturally assumed you might be familiar with some of her body of work such as Strange Fruit and some of the other popular songs associated with her. Its rudimentary. They are the three Jazz singers that defined the artform. Billie's style was derived from the primary innovator of Jazz singing, Louis Armstrong. Her sense of time, her delivery, her sound is Jazz.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@bolder2009 I'm very familiar with Billie's music, I was just wondering why you felt you had to describe the qualities that made Sarah & Ella amazing jazz singers, but then give the crown to Billie without any justification.
Alexdurrant7 2 months ago
@Alexdurrant7 Compared to Ella who used to go on tour 50 out of 52 weeks a year whilst still turning out performances of the highest order. Sarah's voice was still as incredible towards the end of her life after 50 years. That's the consistency that Amy didn't have. Her performances suffered far too soon in her career. Like I suggested, check out 'Brazilian Romance' and marvel that the old Sarah Vaughan released that masterpiece months before she passed away in 1990.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@bolder2009 Ella didn't have to deal with the same problems as Amy did, though. To my knowledge, Ella never suffered drug or alcohol addiction which, as we all well know, impeded Amy's output and some of her live performances. Also, lots of Amy's time was spent on songwriting, which she said was very time-consuming. Ella had them handed to her on a plate. Amy once spent a year working on a single song. In terms of ability and vocal tonal quality, Amy is definitely up there with the others.
Alexdurrant7 2 months ago
@Alexdurrant7 Ella was orphaned at a young age, was taken into care where she suffered abuse, eventually was homeless on the streets as a teenage girl, tap dancing for tips and lose change in an period of American history which didn't offer much prospects for an African American. Its an insult to suggest that Amy had far more to deal with.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@Alexdurrant7 As I said before in that era there were virtually no major singers who wrote their own songs. Its just the way it was. That accounts for why that era produced what is considered the golde age of American popular songs. You had all the great broadway songwriting teams of that era like the Gershwin brothers, Rogers & Hammerstein, Irvin Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern etc and of course composers like Duke Ellington and his collaborator Billy Strayhorn.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@Alexdurrant7 You either song, or you composed. That's just how it was. Some composers occasionally recorded some of their material like the great Fats Waller who was an entertainer and Cole Porter, but it was very rare. Most lables didn't go for that. The change really began in the 40's when R&B/pre rock artists like Louis Jordan were writing and performing their own hits but it wasn't the norm till the 60's
bolder2009 2 months ago
@Alexdurrant7 Amy's life ended in a similar way to her idol Dinah Washington who died at the age of 33. And of course Billie Holiday's life ended prematurely under tragic circumstances that have sometimes been glamourised. The notion of the tragic artist who flew too close to the Sun like Icarus.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@Alexdurrant7 Well I agree that Amy had the ability and tonal quality to be a Jazz great, but to put her next to the legacy of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan is wide off the mark. Its just so many factors. I mean Ella recorded over 200 albums. There so many amazing albums. I've been building up my collection for half my life and I'm still discovering more amazing music. In all that time, I've been constantly amazed that I haven't heard a bad album. The level she maintained...
bolder2009 2 months ago
@bolder2009 It just doesn't make sense to even try to comprehend how she was so consistent over such a long career in the studio and on stage.
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@Alexdurrant7 "With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me." - Frank Sinatra
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@Alexdurrant7 Billie is the essence of Jazz music. With Billie you hear the connection with the blues but the style was new. It was an original style of phrasing like a horn. There was her sense of time, which was deliberate, and the emotional content. Its subjective but the raw power and ability to move the listener in a style that was so unique, has seen many imitators over the decades till now. She took tin pan alley songs that were rejected and turned them into timeless classics.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@Alexdurrant7 Amy was more a hybrid of Jazz, Blues and Soul, which is why she is closer to the type of artist that Dinah Washington was, who was also a hybrid of Jazz, Blues and early R&B. And Amy herself acknowledged that Dinah was her biggest inspiration not just musically but in terms of her character and attitude as an artist and performer. One of Amy's favourite albums of alltime was Dinah Washington's 'Drinking Again'. You can hear a bit of Dinah in some of Amy's performances.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@Alexdurrant7 I find it strange how some Amy Winehouse fans think she belongs in the company of legends like Ella, whose career spanned almost 60 years of excellence. And Sarah Vaughan, whose voice showed no signs of deterioration in her old age in a career that spanned five decades. Listen to her last album 'Brazilian Romance', and her voice was still flawless as if untouched by time. You have to understand the magnitude of those artists before you throw names about.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@bolder2009 You really need to calm down. I don't mind whether you find it strange about Winehouse or not. You have the credibility the size of a mite.
XforeverlongingX 2 months ago
@XforeverlongingX My credibility is no greater or less than yours so thats besides the point. I don't need to calm down. This is a comment section incase you haven't noticed. If you can't deal with that then that's your problem.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@bolder2009 Your thinking is being dominated and twisted by your unhinged emotions. That's why I wrote calm down. I like Winehouse's voice SEPARATE from her personal life. You DO know that Sarah was a druggy too right? So was Holiday, Etta James, Dinah Washington, etc.
XforeverlongingX 1 month ago
@XforeverlongingX Yeah its nothing new. Many of the Jazz legends were addicts at one point or another. Even Satchmo loved his weed. And my emotions are not unhinged. Stick to what know.
bolder2009 1 month ago
@bolder2009 I understand the magnitude of those artists, so try to be a little less patronising. Sarah and Ella had hugely long careers, whilst Amy didn't - however, Amy achieved just as much in the short space of time she was with us as Sarah and Ella did in the same space of time. It's hardly fair to compare their careers outright - we have to think about it in terms of proportion.
Alexdurrant7 2 months ago
@Alexdurrant7 Just as much?? Ok you said I shouldn't patronise you, so I won't even get into it, but to say Amy achieved just as much without backing that up is a ridiculous statment to make. Two albums, one hailed as a classic and a hit and miss live performance history is equal to what Ella accomplished in her career? Wow.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@bolder2009 You didn't read my comment. Ella's career spanned more than 50 years, Amy's spanned around 3 (if we just look at her album-producing periods of time). We need to think in terms of proportion rather than expecting somebody in a just a few years to have achieved the same or more than somebody else in their 50 year career. Also, which live performance are you talking about? She did hundreds.
Alexdurrant7 2 months ago
@Alexdurrant7 I understood what you meant the first time. Two albums doesn't suggest that she would have maintained the calibre of great art. Back To Black is not even a Jazz album. Its a hybrid of Motown influenced R&B, Blues, Ska and Jazz and the Phil Spector sound. 'Frank' is a Jazz/HipHop hybrid album. Erykah Badu did that back in 97 with her classic debut album 'Baduzim'. It was a new sound back then because of the HipHop element. You can also hear that Baduzim sound on 'Halftime'.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@bolder2009 Baduizm is nothing like Frank.
XforeverlongingX 1 month ago
@XforeverlongingX The first major vocal Jazz/Hiphop record was Baduzim (Guru's Jazzmatazz doesn't count). Along with D'Angelo's Brown Sugar, it was a game changer. Amy was aiming to make a Jazz/HipHop record with Frank, and Baduzim was the blue print. Its very obvious from the demo's. Even the track 'Halftime' which was recorded in 2002 bares the influence of Baduzim. Its common knowledge that Erykah Badu was a big influence on her first album, and she made that clear in her early interviews.
bolder2009 1 month ago
@Alexdurrant7 So her recording legacy is essentially a retrogressive take on what has already been done before. What stands out is that she was able to capture the sound, the soulful depth of her singing, and the brilliance of her songwriting. But her live performances from were hit and miss. Jazz artists are not elitests but they pride themselves on the proficiency of their performances. Amy was sometimes so off, that it was embarrasing. She didn't always deliver in her short career.
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@bolder2009 What a mindless point. Do you think you're being insightful by arguing that there are retrospective elements (which is actually also true for literary legend) at the base of her success? The fact is she was inspired as they all were (Holiday, et al didn't write their classic hit songs should we slam them for being less than artistic than Amy in that way? perhaps so) by others stylistically and lyrically.
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@bolder2009 "But her live performances from were hit and miss. " Profound observation. She was a severe severe drug addict.
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@Alexdurrant7 Also, Amy succeeded in an age when jazz was not popular music
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@Alexdurrant7 Also about those artists not writing there own songs. You have to understand that in that era, virtually no singer wrote their own songs. That didn't happen much until the Rock era. Most lables would never have allowed it. Sinatra didn't write songs but he didn't need to. He was a master interpreter, and the best songwriters would hope for him to record their songs. That's how they knew they'd made it to the top. Same, with Billie, Ella and the rest.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@Alexdurrant7 Of course there were exceptions like traditional Delta Blues singers who wrote and played their own stuff. And Billie Holdiay wrote a number of classics, including some of the greatest Jazz standards such as 'Billie's Blues' and 'God Bless The Child'. Peggy Lee wrote some amazing things. Nat King Cole also wrote a number of classics when he was with his trio. But artists writing their own songs didn't become the norm till the 60's. Even the Beatles began as covers band.
bolder2009 2 months ago
@Alexdurrant7 Also Sarah was a great pianist who could play any song she performed. Early in her career she was had a short stint as the second pianist in the legendary Earl Hines big band. She was a pure, highly skilled musician, and part of what made her an innovative Jazz singer was her theorectcal knowledge of how the songs were created. She would take the songs apart and then put them back together in a unique way.
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@bolder2009 Winehouse was a musician as well, get over it.
XforeverlongingX 2 months ago
@XforeverlongingX Nothing to get over. I've seen her live and met her in person. Big deal, I know.
bolder2009 2 months ago
great！！！！！！！！！！1
erotica008 1 year ago
She is simply adorable! She has me blushing! Such a charming woman. And that voice...that voice!
Blatino 1 year ago
Love her class, style and range. She is amazing. I love this song more than words can describe now...
Hendrixroxit 1 year ago
Amazing
puncy12 1 year ago
I heard singers say before/after the shows that they got a cold as a pardon for their not performing well.
In Sarah's case, it's obviously a praise for her singing so very well even if she has a cold. Great.
PeterAliha 1 year ago
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PeterAliha 1 year ago
just listen to the improvs!!! lawd!
Funkredible 1 year ago
love this!!! AWESOME!!!
Funkredible 1 year ago
Great performance and the Divine Miss Sarah looks wonderful!!!!!!!!!!
Zandi5 1 year ago
She is so lovely :)
What a wonderful voice
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remoods 1 year ago