Sarah Vaughan - Original Album Series (2015)
Artist: Sarah Vaughan
Title: Original Album Series
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Parlophone UK
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Blues
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:56:43
Total Size: 413 mb | 964 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Original Album Series
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Parlophone UK
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Blues
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:56:43
Total Size: 413 mb | 964 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
CD1 Dreamy:
1. Sarah Vaughan - Dreamy (1998 Remaster)
2. Sarah Vaughan - Hands Across the Table
3. Sarah Vaughan - The More I See You
4. Sarah Vaughan - I'll Be Seeing You
5. Sarah Vaughan - Star Eyes
6. Sarah Vaughan - You've Changed
7. Sarah Vaughan - Trees
8. Sarah Vaughan - Why Was I Born_
9. Sarah Vaughan - My Ideal
10. Sarah Vaughan - Crazy He Calls Me
11. Sarah Vaughan - Stormy Weather (with Jimmie Jones and Orchestra)
12. Sarah Vaughan - Moon over Miami
CD2 The Divine One:
1. Sarah Vaughan - Have You Met Miss Jones_ (2007 Remaster)
2. Sarah Vaughan - Ain't No Use (2007 Remaster)
3. Sarah Vaughan - Every Time I See You (2007 Remaster)
4. Sarah Vaughan - You Stepped out of a Dream (2007 Remaster)
5. Sarah Vaughan - Gloomy Sunday (2007 Remaster)
6. Sarah Vaughan - What Do You See in Her_ (2007 Remaster)
7. Sarah Vaughan - Jump for Joy (2007 Remaster)
8. Sarah Vaughan - When Your Lover Has Gone (2007 Remaster)
9. Sarah Vaughan - I'm Gonna Laugh You out of My Life (2007 Remaster)
10. Sarah Vaughan - Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (2007 Remaster)
11. Sarah Vaughan - Somebody Else's Dream (2007 Remaster)
12. Sarah Vaughan - Trouble Is a Man (2007 Remaster)
CD3 Count Basie & Sarah Vaughan:
1. Sarah Vaughan - Perdido (2002 Remaster)
2. Sarah Vaughan - Lover Man (2002 Remaster)
3. Sarah Vaughan - I Cried for You (2002 Remaster)
4. Sarah Vaughan - Alone (2002 Remaster)
5. Sarah Vaughan - There Are Such Things (2002 Remaster)
6. Sarah Vaughan - Mean to Me (2002 Remaster)
7. Sarah Vaughan - The Gentleman Is a Dope (2002 Remaster)
8. Sarah Vaughan - You Go to My Head (2002 Remaster)
9. Sarah Vaughan - Until I Met You (2002 Remaster)
10. Sarah Vaughan - You Turned the Tables on Me (2002 Remaster)
11. Sarah Vaughan - Little Man You've Had a Busy Day (2002 Remaster)
CD4 After Hours:
1. Sarah Vaughan - My Favourite Things
2. Sarah Vaughan - Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
3. Sarah Vaughan - Wonder Why
4. Sarah Vaughan - Easy to Love
5. Sarah Vaughan - Sophisticated Lady
6. Sarah Vaughan - Great Day
7. Sarah Vaughan - Ill Wind
8. Sarah Vaughan - If Love Is Good to Me
9. Sarah Vaughan - In a Sentimental Mood
10. Sarah Vaughan - Vanity
CD5 You're Mine You:
1. Sarah Vaughan - You're Mine You (1997 Remaster)
2. Sarah Vaughan - The Best Is yet to Come (1997 Remaster)
3. Sarah Vaughan - Witchcraft (1997 Remaster)
4. Sarah Vaughan - So Long (1997 Remaster)
5. Sarah Vaughan - The Second Time Around (1997 Remaster)
6. Sarah Vaughan - I Could Write a Book (1997 Remaster)
7. Sarah Vaughan - Maria (1997 Remaster)
8. Sarah Vaughan - Baubles, Bangles and Beads (1997 Remaster)
9. Sarah Vaughan - Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) (1997 Remaster)
10. Sarah Vaughan - Moonglow (1997 Remaster)
11. Sarah Vaughan - Invitation (1997 Remaster)
12. Sarah Vaughan - On Green Dolphin Street (Remix; 1997 Remaster)
Five famous albums by Sassy, starring her distinctive voice, with its velvet lining down which her contralto plunges used to dive, and up which her soprano runs used to soar - ever exciting, ever apt. Best of the five is the album with Count Basie and his band - the pell-mell frolic into Perdido, the first track, tells you this is going to be super-duper jazz for voice and big band. Sonny Payne was on drums - driving masterfully a band of the count's best men, not least trumpeter-arranger Thad Jones. The saccharine choice of Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day as sign-off can just about be forgiven.
However, it's harder to bless the work of the other two Joneses involved. Jimmy Jones, whose writing for strings is banal, was the arranger and conductor on the album Dreamy. Every time the bows engage with the cat-gut, the listener winces. On the album You're Mine You, that over-rated arranger Quincy Jones indulges his belief that every instrument at his command should be employed intrusively, loudly and at every opportunity. Only when, for a few numbers, he appears to have grasped the notion that less is more does the album reach the heights that the singer touches - ditto Dreamy.
Less is more - indeed, as is well demonstrated on the After Hours album, where Sassy is accompanied only by guitarist Mundell Lowe and bassist George Duvivier, two sensitive gentlemen of jazz who do a fine job. Mind you, their credit on the album sleeve occurs deep in the tiny liner notes. Like all the CD albums in this set, the back cover is a much shrunken reproduction of the back of the original LP sleeve. Get your magnifying glass ready.
So, there are imperfections, disappointments here, arising one suspects from the urge by record companies of her day to make more profit out of Sarah by steering her away from outright jazz performance and towards the middle of the road. The old problem for jazzers: When can we play hot for a living?
But consider that you can get five albums - three of them superlative for let's include The Divine One - without putting a big dent in your wallet, that you're offered a tour of some of the best rarities of the Great American Songbook and that you're hearing a distinctive voice it is our privilege to know and understand. "I was always much more infuenced by horns than by vocalists," said Sarah. It shows - and what a supple horn of a voice, guided by a nimble intelligence, she brought to music.
However, it's harder to bless the work of the other two Joneses involved. Jimmy Jones, whose writing for strings is banal, was the arranger and conductor on the album Dreamy. Every time the bows engage with the cat-gut, the listener winces. On the album You're Mine You, that over-rated arranger Quincy Jones indulges his belief that every instrument at his command should be employed intrusively, loudly and at every opportunity. Only when, for a few numbers, he appears to have grasped the notion that less is more does the album reach the heights that the singer touches - ditto Dreamy.
Less is more - indeed, as is well demonstrated on the After Hours album, where Sassy is accompanied only by guitarist Mundell Lowe and bassist George Duvivier, two sensitive gentlemen of jazz who do a fine job. Mind you, their credit on the album sleeve occurs deep in the tiny liner notes. Like all the CD albums in this set, the back cover is a much shrunken reproduction of the back of the original LP sleeve. Get your magnifying glass ready.
So, there are imperfections, disappointments here, arising one suspects from the urge by record companies of her day to make more profit out of Sarah by steering her away from outright jazz performance and towards the middle of the road. The old problem for jazzers: When can we play hot for a living?
But consider that you can get five albums - three of them superlative for let's include The Divine One - without putting a big dent in your wallet, that you're offered a tour of some of the best rarities of the Great American Songbook and that you're hearing a distinctive voice it is our privilege to know and understand. "I was always much more infuenced by horns than by vocalists," said Sarah. It shows - and what a supple horn of a voice, guided by a nimble intelligence, she brought to music.
