Sarah Vaughan's Finest Hour

Product Description Some of her biggest Mercury pop hits-plus seminal jazz sides with the likes of Cannonball Adderley, Clifford Brown and Zoot Sims! Includes Make Yourself Comfortable; Broken Hearted Melody; Misty; Lush Life; Lover Man; Night Song; My Coloring Book; Star Dust; Dreamsville; Sassy's Blues , and more. Amazon.com Sarah Vaughan recorded for Norman Granz's Mercury label throughout the 1950s and early '60s, performing brilliantly on material that ranged as far afield as her three-octave voice. She was an effective pop singer, handily adding substance to the most casual lyric, and a superb ballad singer, finding emotional and musical nuances that few could match. As a jazz singer, she could improvise with an ebullient inventiveness that was a match for the most gifted instrumentalists. This hour-long introduction to her work touches on many of those bases, from the light pop of "Make Yourself Comfortable" to 's world-weary "Lush Life" to the hard-swinging scat of "Shulie a Bop" and "Sassy's Blues." Along the way, she gets to match wits with some great soloists, like and , while members of her regular trios, like pianist , drummer , and bassist Joe Benjamin, offer exemplary support. --Stuart Broomer