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Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed "Sassy", "The Divine One", and the "Queen of Bebop", she won two Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and was nominated for a total of nine Grammy Awards. She was given an NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989. Critic Scott Yanow wrote that she had "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century".
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entertainment · American jazz singer and pianist (1924–1990) · singer · jazz musician · pianist · also Sarah Vaughan, Divine One, Sassie Vaughan, Sassy Vaughan, The Divine One, Vaughan
Born 27 March 1924 · Died 3 April 1990 · Q229513
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 3 entries
Hartford Courant: West Hartford musician wins prestigious 2024 Sarah Vaughan jazz award
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BroadwayWorld: Review: BBC PROMS: PROM 13, SARAH VAUGHAN: IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW, Royal Albert Hall
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Essence: The Sarah A’Vaughan Garde Gala Commemorates The 100th Birthday Of The Trailblazing Jazz Icon
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2023· 1 entry
Released album “Great Women of Song: Sarah Vaughan”.
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2022· 1 entry
Jazz: From Sassy To Divine: The Sarah Vaughan Project
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “Our Kinda Love”.
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2017· 1 entry
NJ.com: Sarah Vaughan bio hits a few flat notes
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2016· 2 entries
Wall Street Journal: ‘Sarah Vaughan: Live at Rosy’s’ Review
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NBC News: Sarah Vaughan Forever: Jazz Icon's Legacy Gets Stamp of Approval
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2013· 1 entry
Jazz: Sarah Vaughan "Divine: The Jazz Albums 1954-1958" On Verve Select
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2012· 3 entries
seattlepi.com: Music Review: Sarah Vaughan - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection
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Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2012).
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Was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame
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2008· 1 entry
Northcountrypublicradio.org: Sarah Vaughan: Vocal Virtuosity
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Lover Man”.
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Sarah Vaughan Sings for Lovers”.
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “With Clifford Brown: Complete Recordings”.
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Released album “Shulie a Bop”.
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Released album “Sarah Vaughan - Great Moments 4”.
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “RTL JAZZ: La Collection”.
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Sarah Vaughan Sings the Standards”.
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San Francisco and Berkeley, California, made by proclamations March 27 Sarah Lois Vaughan Day
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2002· 5 entries
Released album “You’re Not That Kind”.
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Released album “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”.
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Released album “I Grandi Del Jazz: Sara Vaughan”.
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Released album “Forever Gold”.
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Released album “Swingin’ Ladies of Jazz”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Send in the Clowns”.
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “Sweet Affection”.
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Released album “Divine Sarah”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Sophisticated Lady”.
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “I Love Brazil!”.
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “It’s You or No One”.
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Released album “Soft & Sassy”.
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Released album “Bird on the Wing”.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “Sassy Sings and Swings”.
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Released album “Time & Again”.
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1991· 2 entries
Released album “I've Got It Good”.
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Released album “Sarah Slightly Classical”.
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1990· 15 entries
Died 1990-04-03.
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Released album “Sarah Vaughan with Michel Legrand”.
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Released album “The George Gershwin Songbook, Volume 1”.
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Released album “I’ll Be Seeing You: The Sarah Vaughan Memorial Album”.
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Released album “The Divine”.
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Released album “A Celebration of Duke”.
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Released album “Masterpieces of Sarah Vaughan”.
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Released album “The George Gershwin Songbook, Volume 2”.
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“My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.”
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“I've always been a Democrat, it runs in my family.”
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“Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.”
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“There are notes between notes, you know.”
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“There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.”
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“They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit.”
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“When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.”
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1989· 6 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1989).
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Released album “Carols of Christmas”.
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Citing the need to seek treatment for arthritis of the hand, although she was able to complete a series of performances in Japan
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Vaughan's health began to decline, although this did not initially stop her performing, as she gave a show in February
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Quincy Jones' album Back on the Block included Vaughan in a brief scatting duet with Ella Fitzgerald
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Was diagnosed with lung cancer and was too ill to finish the last day of what would turn out to be her final series of public performances
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1988· 1 entry
Contributed vocals to an album of Christmas carols recorded by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with the Utah Symphony Orchestra and sold in Hallmark Cards stores
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “Brazilian Romance”.
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1986· 4 entries
Released album “Orchestra Arranged and Conducted by Michel Legrand”.
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On Independence Day in a program nationally televised on PBS she performed with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, in a medley of songs composed by George Gershwin
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Vaughan sang "Happy Talk" and "Bali Ha'i" in the role of Bloody Mary on a studio recording by Kiri Te Kanawa and José Carreras of the score of the Broadway musical South Pacific, while sitting on the studio floor
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In New Orleans with guests Dizzy Gillespie and Maynard Ferguson
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1985· 5 entries
Vaughan appeared at the Playboy Jazz Festival
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Released album “The Planet Is Alive... Let It Live!”.
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Vaughan reconnected with her longstanding, continually growing European audience during a celebratory concert at the Chatelet Theater in Paris
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Released album “The Rodgers & Hart Songbook”.
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Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 1988 she was inducted into the American Jazz Hall of Fame
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1984· 2 entries
On Barry Manilow's 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe, an album of pastiche compositions with established jazz musicians
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Participated in The Planet is Alive, Let It Live a symphonic piece composed by Tito Fontana and Sante Palumbo on Italian translations of Polish poems by Karol Wojtyla, better known as Pope John Paul II
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1983· 1 entry
Or 1984 with her trio and guest soloists
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1982· 3 entries
With Tilson Thomas for a modified version of the Gershwin program, played again by the Los Angeles Philharmonic but this time in its home hall, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion; the CBS recording of the concert Gershwin Liv
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Committed to a limited number of studio recordings
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Released album ““Crazy and Mixed Up””.
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “Songs of the Beatles”.
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Released album “Copacabana”.
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1980· 4 entries
Released album “American Singer”.
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Released album “Duke Ellington Song Book, Volume 1”.
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Was broadcast on PBS and won her an Emmy Award the next year for Individual Achievement, Special Class
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Released album “Duke Ellington Song Book, Volume 2”.
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1978· 4 entries
Was given an Honorary Doctorate of Music by Berklee College of Music
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Recorded Vaughan's How Long Has This Been Going On
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Released album “How Long Has This Been Going On?”.
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Released album “O Som Brasileiro De Sarah Vaughan”.
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1977· 2 entries
Filmmaker Thomas Guy followed Vaughan on tour to film the documentary Listen to the Sun
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Vaughan ended her personal and professional relationship with Marshall Fisher
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1975· 2 entries
On the belief that the cover was inconsistent with the formal, sophisticated image she projected on stage
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And 1976 with other symphony orchestras in the United States
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1974· 3 entries
Released album “Come Out Swingin'”.
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Released album “Sarah Vaughan & The Jimmy Rowles Quintet”.
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Performed music by George Gershwin at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
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1973· 2 entries
Released album “Sings With the Hollywood All Stars”.
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To honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old and have "qualitative or historical significance
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1972· 4 entries
Released album “Jazz Vocal Custom 20”.
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Released album “Feelin’ Good”.
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Released album ““The Divine””.
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Released album “The Four Queens of Jazz”.
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1971· 3 entries
Released album “A Time”.
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Bob Shad, who had worked with her as a producer at Mercury, asked her to record for his label, Mainstream, which he had founded after leaving Mercury
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At the Tropicana in Las Vegas, Marshall Fisher was a concession stand employee and fan when he was introduced to Sarah Vaughan
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “Jazz Vocal Standards”.
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1967· 3 entries
Released album “Sassy Swings Again”.
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Released album “It’s a Man’s World”.
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Lacked a recording contract for the remainder of the decade
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1966· 3 entries
Released album “The New Scene”.
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Released album “Belts the Hits”.
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Released album “Pop Artistry”.
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1965· 4 entries
Released album “Sarah + 2”.
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Released album “Sarah Vaughan Sings the Mancini Songbook”.
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Released album “Sarah Sings Soulfully”.
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Released album “¡Viva! Vaughan”.
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1964· 2 entries
Released album “Sweet ’n’ Sassy”.
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Released album “Vaughan With Voices”.
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1963· 3 entries
Vaughan returned to the more familiar confines of Mercury
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Released album “The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan”.
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Released album “The Lonely Hours”.
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1962· 3 entries
Released album “Snowbound”.
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Released album “Sassy Meets Shearing!”.
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Released album “You’re Mine You”.
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1961· 6 entries
Released album “The Divine One”.
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Released album “Sarah Vaughan’s Golden Hits!!!”.
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Released album “Count Basie / Sarah Vaughan”.
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Released album “After Hours”.
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Vaughan and Atkins adopted a daughter, Deborah Lois Atkins, known professionally as Paris Vaughan
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Released album “My Heart Sings”.
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1960· 3 entries
Released album “Dreamy”.
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With "Serenata" on Roulette and "Eternally" and "You're My Baby", a couple of residual tracks from her Mercury contract
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Released album “Close to You”.
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1959· 3 entries
Released album “No Count Sarah”.
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With "Broken Hearted Melody", a song she considered "corny" which nevertheless became her first gold record, and a regular part of her concert repertoire for years to come
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Released album “The Magic of Sarah Vaughan”.
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1958· 3 entries
Released album “Vaughan and Violins”.
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On Sunday Night at the London Palladium with several songs including "Who's Got the Last Laugh Now"
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Released album “In a Romantic Mood”.
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1957· 7 entries
That she possessed "what may well be the finest voice ever applied to jazz
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Released album “Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin”.
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Released album “Sarah Vaughan Sings”.
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Released album “Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine Sing the Best of Irving Berlin”.
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Released album “Sings Broadway: Great Songs from Hit Shows”.
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Released album “Wonderful Sarah”.
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That yielded the hit "Passing Strangers"
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1956· 2 entries
Released album “Sassy”.
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Released album “At the Blue Note”.
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1955· 4 entries
Released album “Sarah Vaughan in Hi‐Fi”.
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The illustrated encyclopedia of Sarah Vaughan records
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Released album “After Hours With Sarah Vaughan”.
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Released album “In the Land of Hi-Fi”.
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1954· 1 entry
Released album “Images”.
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1953· 1 entry
Treadwell negotiated a contract for Vaughan with Mercury in which she would record commercial material for Mercury and jazz-oriented material for its subsidiary, EmArcy
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1950· 2 entries
Released album “Sarah Vaughan”.
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With Miles Davis and Bennie Green, but they were atypical of what she recorded for Columbia
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1949· 2 entries
With their finances improving, Vaughan and Treadwell bought a three-story house on 21 Avon Avenue in Newark, occupying the top floor during their increasingly rare off-hours at home and moving Vaughan's parents to the lo
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Vaughan had a radio program, Songs by Sarah Vaughan, on WMGM in New York City
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1947· 1 entry
Vaughan performed at the third Cavalcade of Jazz concert held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles that was produced by Leon Hefflin, Sr
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1945· 2 entries
Recorded "Lover Man" for Guild with a quintet featuring Gillespie and Parker with Al Haig on piano, Curly Russell on double bass, and Sid Catlett on drums
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By freelancing on 52nd Street in New York City at the Three Deuces, the Famous Door, the Downbeat, and the Onyx Club
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1944· 1 entry
Giving her the opportunity to record for the first time on December 5, 1944, on the song "I'll Wait and Pray" for De Luxe
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1942· 1 entry
Returned to the Apollo to open for Ella Fitzgerald
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-03-27.
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