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At Mister Kelly'sSarah Vaughan
Release Date: 09/18/2007
Original Release:
1957
# of Discs:
1
J&R Item # 1005777_CD
UPC # 602517396944
Label: Verve (USA)
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Performer: Sarah Vaughan
Distributor: Universal Distribution Notes: The CD includes 11 bonus tracks not on the original LP. Personnel: Sarah Vaughan (vocals); Jimmy Jones (piano); Richard Davis (bass); Roy Haynes (drums). Recorded live at Mr. Kelly's, Chicago, Illinois in August 1957. Digitally remastered by Kiyoshi Tokiwa. During the mid-'50s, Sarah Vaughan spent most of her time recording songbook standards backed by a large orchestra in florid arrangements, with only the occasional breath of fresh air like her masterpiece, 1954's Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown. Four years after that milestone, another landed with the live album At Mister Kelly's. Recorded quite early in the days of the live LP, the album captured Vaughan at her best and most relaxed, stretching out on a set of late-night torch songs and ballads. With a trio including Jimmy Jones on piano, Roy Haynes on drums, and Richard Davis on bass, Vaughan is simply captivating, easily disproving the notion that, to be entertaining, singers needed inventive arrangements and multiple voices (instrumental or otherwise) behind them. Her unerring sense of rhythm carries her through every song on this set, whether the occasion calls for playfulness and wit ("Thou Swell," "Honeysuckle Rose") or a world-wise melancholia ("Willow Weep for Me"). Her accompanists are a valuable anchor, with Haynes' drumming just as precise as Sassy's vocals and Jones' piano solos adding additional vitality. ~ John Bush
Sarah Vaughan's name was synonymous with jazz singing for two generations. She probably ranks as a close second only to Ella Fitzgerald in terms of influence, vocal range, and sheer, consistent brilliance. Her knowledge of bebop, gained during her '40s stint with Billy Eckstine, enabled her to advance the harmonic side of her work beyond that of her contemporaries. Throughout the '50s, she produced a torrent of albums in either a popular vein for Mercury Records, or more jazz-oriented material for subsidiary label EmArcy.
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Influences:
Armstrong, Louis Bailey, Mildred Boswell Sisters Eckstine, Billy Fitzgerald, Ella Holiday, Billie Horne, Lena Waters, Ethel
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