Jazz
Recorded live at Mister Kelly's, Chicago; August 6, 7, 8, 1957.
Sarah Vaughan Vocal
Jimmy Jones Piano
Richard Davis Bass
Roy Haynes Drums
No matter what I, or any past or future critic, has ever said about Sarah Vaughan, none of us can do her justice...the feeling that one got listening to Sarah Vaughan perform live - that little chill on the back of your spine that makes the hairs on the back of your head stand up and be counted.
On this album, Sarah Vaughan flubs lyrics, upends a microphone, berates the soundman, kibitzes with the audience like she's in her living room, and, in general, sings the pants off everything. Some of the songs are better than the others, but most are first rate, and several ("Willow Weep For Me," September In The Rain," "Sometimes I'm Happy," "Poor Butterfly,", etc.) would stay in her repertoire until her death in 1990.
As one who writes about jazz, I've got the same adjectives that everybody else has: great, superb, stunning, genius, blah, blah, blah.
---Lee Jeske
Original sessions produced by Bob Shad.
Digital remastering by Kiyoshi Tokiwa. |
