Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. I Feel Pretty
2. Misty
3. What Is This Thing Called Love
4. Lover Man
5. Sometimes I'm Happy
6. Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey
7. Tenderly
8. Sassy's Blues
9. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
10. I Cried For You
11. Poor Butterfly
12. I Could Write A Book
13. Time After Time
14. All Of Me
15. I Had'nt Anyone Till You
16. I Can't Give You Anything But Love

Disc 2:

1. I'll Be Seeing You
2. Maria
3. Day In Day Out
4. Fly Me To The Moon
5. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
6. The Lady's In Love With You
7. Honeysuckle Rose
8. What Is This Thing Called Love
9. Lover Man
10. I Cried For You
11. The More I See You
12. Say It Isn't So
13. Black Coffee
14. Just One Of Those Things
15. On Green DolphineStreet
16. Over The Rainbow

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #183106 in Music
• Released on: 1991-06-15
• Number of discs: 2
• Original language: English

From Amazon.com
This two-CD set presents two hours of Sarah Vaughan performing in Copenhagen's Tivoli over a four-day period in 1963. It's Vaughan doing what she did regularly, singing strong material in the context of her working trio, made up here of pianist Kirk Stuart, bassist Charles Williams, and drummer George Hughes. Producer Quincy Jones supposedly worked with her on selecting the tunes, but there are no surprises. The material is all familiar standards and jazz tunes, and those songs that might be unusual in another singer's repertoire--"Black Coffee" or "Poor Butterfly"--were mainstays in Vaughan's. These are wonderful performances. Vaughan's voice was as fine an instrument as has ever sung jazz and her timbre was without peer. Scatting on an uptempo song like "Sometimes I'm Happy" or her own medium-tempo "Sassy's Blues," she's as fluently inventive as almost any instrumentalist. While her ballads would sometimes become stagy in live performances--complete with asides to the band or audience--they could also be marvelous, and there are many in that category here. Vaughan's sound is so variable that she sometimes gives the impression another singer has begun a song, and she can range within a single song from the richest depths to soaring, fluting highs. There are dual versions of a few songs here--"What Is This Thing Called Love," "Lover Man," "I Cried for You"--and they demonstrate just how spontaneously creative Vaughan was. --Stuart Broomer

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Sarah Vaughan, radieuse, dans l'un de ses plus beaux tours de chant. Après son passage dans les fameux jardins de Tivoli, les nuits de Copenhague ne seront plus les mêmes. C'est la première fois qu'elle se rend au Danemark. Est-ce la beauté des lieux qui l'inspire ? Toujours est-il que Sarah, étourdissante, ne s'est jamais sentie aussi à l'aise. Elle alterne avec bonheur ballades et morceaux de bravoure, change de registre avec une stupéfiante facilité, la très large tessiture de sa voix lui permettant toutes les audaces. Sassy s'amuse, plaisante avec le public et les musiciens de son trio, prend des libertés avec les mélodies qu'elle élève pour les porter au ciel. Sur tempos rapides, ses scats sont prodigieux d'invention, son phrasé d'une élastique souplesse. L'énergique chanteuse est aussi la plus émouvante des interprètes. Ses tendres versions de "Misty", "Lover Man", "Over The Rainbow" sont des moments inoubliables. Cette voix-là ensorcelle, vous fait perdre la tête. C'est le chant d'une sirène, comment y résister ? --Pierre de Chocqueuse