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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. After Hours (Album Version) | |||
| 2. Street Of Dreams (78 rpm Version) | |||
| 3. You Taught Me To Love Again (Album Version) | |||
| 4. You're Mine, You (Album Version) | |||
| 5. My Reverie (Album Version) | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon) (Album Version) | |||
| 2. Nice Work If You Can Get It (Album Version) | |||
| 3. Come Rain Or Come Shine (Album Version) | |||
| 4. Mean To Me (Album Version) | |||
| 5. It Might As Well Be Spring (Album Version) | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Medley: Porgy and Bess; Overture from Porgy and Bess\ Summertime\ It Ain't Necessarily So\ I Loves You Porgy | |||
| 2. Medley: But Not For Me/Love Is Here To Stay/Embraceable You/Someone To Watch Over Me; But Not For Me\ Love Is Here To Stay\ Embraceable You\ Someone To Watch Over Me (Voice) | |||
| 3. Sweet and Low-Down (Voice) | |||
| 4. Fascinating Rhythm (Album Version) | |||
| 5. Do It Again (Voice) | |||
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| Disc: 4 | |||
| 1. Make This City Ours Tonight (Vocal) | |||
| 2. Romance (Vocal) | |||
| 3. Love And Passion (Vocal) | |||
| 4. So Many Stars (Album Version) | |||
| 5. Photograph (Vocal) | |||
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Editorial Reviews
Some called her "Sassy" or "The Divine One," but for most, Sarah Vaughan was known as only one thing: the ultimate jazz vocalist of the 20th-Century. Now, a quartet of classic albums have been brought together as Sarah Vaughan: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection; a four-CD set that further enhances the legacy of this magisterial singer. The recordings included span nearly 40 years and bookend her first major label signing -- to Columbia in 1949 -- and her return to the label as a world-renowned diva for two special projects in 1982 and 1987.
After Hours With Sarah Vaughan captures the sumptuous 1949-1952 sessions that set Vaughan's luscious tones off of arrangements for strings. Complemented by orchestra leaders including Percy Faith and Mitch Miller, Vaughan delivers top notch interpretations of "Just Friends," "I Cried For You," "Street Of Dreams," her hit, "Black Coffee," and other standards. Four bonus tracks not found on the original album are included here.
Sarah Vaughan In Hi-Fi, features her mostly from 1949 and 1950 in a more jazz-oriented setting with none other than a young Miles Davis, in one of the only times he accompanied a singer on record. Nine bonus tracks highlight this disc.
Recorded at the Hollywood Bowl in 1982, Michael Tilson Thomas / Sarah Vaughan: Gershwin Live! unites the now fully matured singer, still in peak vocal condition, with the renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas in a program of beloved Gershwin tunes that includes "The Man I Love" and "Someone to Watch Over Me," as well as a "Porgy and Bess" medley. This album won Vaughan the 1982 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. One fascinating aspect of this box is the opportunity it presents to compare Sarah's interpretations of the same Gershwin material -- "Summertime" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It" -- from both early and late periods in her career.
Sarah Vaughan: Brazilian Romance, Vaughan's last complete album, finds her in a personal comfort zone. A longtime fan of Brazilian popular music, Vaughan takes to such gorgeous tunes as "So Many Stars," "Photograph" and "Nothing Will Be As It Was" with passion and her trademark artistry -- a fitting farewell.
CD's In Box Set:
1) After Hours With Sarah Vaughan
2) Sarah Vaughan In Hi-Fi
3) Michael Tilson Thomas / Sarah Vaughan: Gershwin Live!
4) Sarah Vaughan: Brazilian Romance
After Hours With Sarah Vaughan captures the sumptuous 1949-1952 sessions that set Vaughan's luscious tones off of arrangements for strings. Complemented by orchestra leaders including Percy Faith and Mitch Miller, Vaughan delivers top notch interpretations of "Just Friends," "I Cried For You," "Street Of Dreams," her hit, "Black Coffee," and other standards. Four bonus tracks not found on the original album are included here.
Sarah Vaughan In Hi-Fi, features her mostly from 1949 and 1950 in a more jazz-oriented setting with none other than a young Miles Davis, in one of the only times he accompanied a singer on record. Nine bonus tracks highlight this disc.
Recorded at the Hollywood Bowl in 1982, Michael Tilson Thomas / Sarah Vaughan: Gershwin Live! unites the now fully matured singer, still in peak vocal condition, with the renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas in a program of beloved Gershwin tunes that includes "The Man I Love" and "Someone to Watch Over Me," as well as a "Porgy and Bess" medley. This album won Vaughan the 1982 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. One fascinating aspect of this box is the opportunity it presents to compare Sarah's interpretations of the same Gershwin material -- "Summertime" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It" -- from both early and late periods in her career.
Sarah Vaughan: Brazilian Romance, Vaughan's last complete album, finds her in a personal comfort zone. A longtime fan of Brazilian popular music, Vaughan takes to such gorgeous tunes as "So Many Stars," "Photograph" and "Nothing Will Be As It Was" with passion and her trademark artistry -- a fitting farewell.
CD's In Box Set:
1) After Hours With Sarah Vaughan
2) Sarah Vaughan In Hi-Fi
3) Michael Tilson Thomas / Sarah Vaughan: Gershwin Live!
4) Sarah Vaughan: Brazilian Romance
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Checco
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I am in love with Sarah so my rating is a little biased. The first and third album are the best. Especially the live performance with the LA Philarmonic Orchestra. In my opinion this is a must-have box set if you still are looking for the real thing. The first disc is young Sassy at her best. The second is great although you can tell the sound source must have been a vinyl copy. The cast in the fourth album is full of stars: George Duke. Paulinho Da Costa, Tom Scott, Ernie Watts, Milton Nascimiento among others. Even though in my opinion I Love Brazil is better, even this album shows the greatness of Sarah Vaughan.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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An excellent compilation of the magnificent voice of one of the greatest singers of all time. No one in modern music has replaced her or Ella or any of the other geniuses of the height of the jazz era.
0 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Mark Walling
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Of the four LPs, only the Brazilian and the LA Orchestra have a Sarah Vaughn voice. The other two are when she was so young you can't tell it is her.
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