Send in the Clowns (20 Bit Mastering)

Sarah Vaughan And the Count Basie Orchestra, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 1, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1981
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Pablo
• ASIN: B000000XLN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #96,541 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Japanese limited edition issue of the album classic in a deluxe, miniaturized LP sleeve replica of the original vinyl album artwork. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 10 Fabulous Songs, July 2, 2004

By	Jim Holtz (Madison, Wi United States) - See all my reviews

The correct song list is:
1.I've Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
2.Just Friends
3.If You Could See Me Now
4.Ill Wind
5.When Your Lover Has Gone
6.Send In The Clowns
7.I Hadn't Any One Till You
8.All The Things Are You
9.Indian Summer
10.From This Monment On
I've asked Amazon to list the tracks correctly. Now, to the cd review. Sarah out did herself. She was the perfect jazz singer. Pitch, lucidity, range, & "improvisation"! Pablo Records released 4 ***** albums by Sarah Vaughan: How Long Has This Been Going On, Duke Ellington Songbook v.2, Crazy & Mixed Up, & this one. V.1 of Ellington was only ****. This set of mainly older & lesser known songs were perfect for Sarah. She 1st grabbed us by doing the best jazz version of Send In The Clowns & then lavished us with jewels such as the swingers,(I Hadn't Anyone Till You & Just Friends) & laments (Indian Summer & If You Could See Me Now). With all 10 tracks, Sassy show her divinity by getting to the essence of every song. Sarah somehow puts all other jazz female singers to shame. They were all great in their own way! But, didn't Sarah only & truly make her voice an isntrument? Here, that voice is truly intergrated with the band. It's too bad that she was held back & unable to go whole hog. Pablo probably wanted to sell more copies. "Keep that Divine Sassiness in check" was probably thought. Although she complied, Sarah showed us all what the perfect jazz singer can do to 10 perfect songs. If I get to Heaven, may I greeted by the Divine One & The Count.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars There are irreplacable cuts on this one., August 25, 2002

By	Richard Meyer "jazz lover" (Woodbridge,VA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Starts out with "Ive Gotta Right To Sing The Blues" where Sarah sings to be ship wrecked in a disaster area. Sarah had recorded "If You Could See Me Now" 35 years earlier when she didn't have the technique to do it;this song is a trip."Ill Wind was done previously on Roulette with very little backing & Sarah absolutley revamps it with full orchestra with moaing & groaning with those high notes;sounds like Sarah is singing in a disaster area, just superb.Sarah does up tempo versions of Roulette's"When Your Lover Has Gone,I Hadn't Anyone Till You,& All These Things Yor Are" is very good but listen to the last one "Sarah Sings Boradway" which is superb balad version on Mercury."Send In the Clowns" is excellent but also listen to it,a slighty rock version on the Fantstic Legacy CD."Indian Summer" never recorded before is absolutley beautiful & absolutley fits ... to my life & maybe yours."From This Monent On" Sarah sings an updeat song. Sassy sings the title and then "no more blues songs, only hoop de do songs from this moment on".All Sarah's albums with the Count Basie Orchestra seem to stop time;a voice & orchestra no longer combined or around."Little Man You've Had A Busy Day" is sung in slow motion, beatifull on Roulette,"Stardust" there is the most excellent version I have ever head on Mercury and all SV & CB. SV & CB on Roulette is sitll available on Roulette & "Stardust" is on "SV At Her Finest" on Mercury. Don't miss this one on Pablo; it's a work of art to have in your collection.This particular cut is going out of print;get new or used but the only difference in the high priced import is the price.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars sarah lets it fly again with basie band, December 10, 2000

By	Jon H. (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

Some twenty years after the album "Count Basie and Sarah Vaughan," Sarah teamed up with the band again, and again, to our good fortune, decided to let her voice have free reign to fly through the auditory planes. No honey-sweet pop coatings (with one exception perhaps - the title track); nor does she try to please the critics. Instead, she challenges and ultimately persuades the listening ear to hear the rightness of her by-the-book, that is by-the-book-she-wrote, renditions.