"introduced to bandleader and pianist Earl Hines, although the details of that introduction are disputed. Billy Eckstine, Hines' singer at the time, has been credited by Vaughan and others with hearing her at the Apollo and recommending her to Hines. Hines claimed later to have discovered her himself and offered her a job on the spot. After a brief tryout at the Apollo, Hines replaced his female singer with Vaughan on April 4, 1943. Vaughan spent the remainder of 1943 and part of 1944 touring the country with the Earl Hines big band, which featured Billy Eckstine. She was hired"
"of singer Sarah Vaughan. As a result, the Drifters recycled many members, none of whom made much money and got paid a mere $100 a week (US$ in dollars). McPhatter later expressed regret at this action, recognizing that it doomed his fellow musicians to unprofitability. McPhatter was first replaced by original member David Baughan, who had already been singing lead in concert while McPhatter was in the service. Baughan's voice was similar to McPhatter's, but his erratic behavior made him difficult to work with and unsuitable in the eyes of Atlantic Records executives. Baughan soon left the group to form"
"to 1953. Recording and critical success led to performing opportunities, with Vaughan singing to large crowds in clubs around the country during the late 1940s and early 1950s. In the summer of 1949, she made her first appearance with a symphony orchestra in a benefit for the Philadelphia Orchestra entitled ""100 Men and a Girl."" Around this time, Chicago disk jockey Dave Garroway coined a second nickname for her, ""The Divine One"", that would follow her throughout her career. One of her early television appearances was on DuMont's variety show ""Stars on Parade"" (1953–54) in which she sang ""My Funny"
"1971, feeling confined by playing pop hits with Liberation, Vaughan formed his own band, Blackbird. After growing tired of the Dallas music scene, he dropped out of school and moved with the band to Austin, Texas, which had more liberal and tolerant audiences. There, Vaughan initially took residence at the Rolling Hills Country Club, a venue that would later become the Soap Creek Saloon. Blackbird played at several clubs in Austin and opened shows for bands such as Sugarloaf, Wishbone Ash, and Zephyr, but could not maintain a consistent lineup. In early December 1972, Vaughan left Blackbird and joined a"
"Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday. In 1953, she signed a recording contract with Jubilee Records, for which she recorded six albums. Later that year, she also joined the Hawkins Orchestra. Her first recordings for Jubilee were songs such as ""In the Still of the Night"" (originally published in 1937), ""I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"" and ""Time After Time"" (1947). The songs were later included on the album ""And That Reminds Me"" (1959). In 1957, Reese released a single called ""And That Reminds Me"". After years of performing, she gained chart success with this song. It became a"
"they were never legally married. Vaughan began a relationship with Waymon Reed, a trumpet player 16 years her junior who was playing with the Count Basie band. Reed joined her working trio as a musical director and trumpet player, and became her third husband in 1978. She was a member of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority. The album ""Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown"" and the single ""If You Could See Me Now"" were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, an award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old and have ""qualitative or historical"
"Ray Vaughan. He grew up mainly in Dumas. Shannon joined his first band, The Avengers, around age 13. The band members were Shannon on guitar, Tim Easley on vocals, Jim Love on guitar, and David Davis on drums. In high school, Shannon was in the band Ekos. Soon after high school, he moved to Dallas from Dumas and joined a soul cover band in 1966, initially called The New Breed, and later The Young Lads. Shannon recorded two 45s with this band, which featured Tim Easley on vocals and Uncle John Turner on drums. According to the Köppen climate classification"
"included Dizzy Gillespie and Georgie Auld. She left the Eckstine band in late 1944 to pursue a solo career, although she remained close to Eckstine and recorded with him frequently. Pianist John Malachi is credited with giving Vaughan the moniker ""Sassy"", a nickname that matched her personality. She liked it, and the name and its shortened variant ""Sass"" stuck with colleagues and the press. In written communications, Vaughan often spelled it ""Sassie"". Vaughan began her solo career in 1945 by freelancing on 52nd Street in New York City at the Three Deuces, the Famous Door, the Downbeat, and the Onyx"
"the First World War. Sarah Vaughan was their only biological child, although in the 1960s they adopted Donna, the child of a woman who traveled on the road with Vaughan. The Vaughans lived in a house on Brunswick Street in Newark for Vaughan's entire childhood. Jake was deeply religious. The family was active in New Mount Zion Baptist Church at 186 Thomas Street. Vaughan began piano lessons at age 7, sang in the church choir, and played piano for rehearsals and services. She developed an early love for popular music on records and the radio. In the 1930s, she frequently"
"Sarah Vaughan to rural and urban blues. By age 2, her favorite singer was Dinah Washington, whose recording of ""That's All I Want From You"" was particularly loved by Tillery and was the first song she memorized. TIllery claims that she learned how to read by looking at the labels from her parent's record collection. ""Basie was on Verve. Dinah was on Mercury"". She had memorized Basie's arrangement of ""April in Paris"" by age 4. She also admired Ethel Merman's big voice, going into her parent's acoustically-pleasing bathroom and trying to imitate Merman's song ""There's No Business Like Show Business""."
"Stevie Ray Vaughan, they later heard music from Tom Petty and the Rolling Stones. The sisters were both drawn towards blues music in their teenage years. However, Amanda did not commence writing or performing until 2012. She first performed solo in a singer-songwriter vein, before forming her own band in 2014. The following year she released her debut album, ""Down in the Dirt"", on VizzTone Records, for which she was honored with the Sean Costello Rising Star Award from ""Blues Blast"" magazine. On ""Down in the Dirt"", her band consisted of Amanda Fish (vocals, guitar), Sean McDonnell (vocals, guitar), Cole"
"than trumpeter Harry ""Sweets"" Edison (the perfect accompaniment for Vaughan). Roulette would soon push Vaughan in many different directions - releasing over a dozen LPs in just a few short years - but this small-group date is a gem"". The Divine One The Divine One is a 1961 studio album by Sarah Vaughan, arranged by Jimmy Jones. One of Vaughan's first albums for Roulette Records, ""The Divine One"" was, along with ""Sassy"" a nickname for Vaughan. The Allmusic review by John Bush awarded the album four stars and said that ""Recorded just after Sarah Vaughan joined the Roulette label...The Divine"
"saw local and touring bands at the Montgomery Street Skating Rink. By her mid-teens, she began venturing illegally into Newark's night clubs and performing as a pianist and singer at the Piccadilly Club and the Newark Airport. Vaughan attended East Side High School, then transferred to Newark Arts High School, which opened in 1931. As her nocturnal adventures as a performer overwhelmed her academic pursuits, she dropped out of high school during her junior year to concentrate on music. Vaughan was frequently accompanied by a friend, Doris Robinson, on her trips into New York City. In the fall of 1942,"
"No Count Sarah No Count Sarah is a 1958 studio album by the American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan. The title refers to the fact that Vaughan was accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra, but without Count Basie. Reviewing the album for Allmusic, Scott Yanow gave it a four-and-a-half stars rating and called it ""one of the best of all Sarah Vaughan recordings. Highly recommended"". It features ""astounding vocalese"" from Vaughan on tracks including ""Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"" and ""No 'Count Blues"". 5 January 1958 (2, 3, 8) 15 December 1958 (1) 23 December 1958 (4, 5, 6, 7, 9)"
"No Count Sarah No Count Sarah is a 1958 studio album by the American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan. The title refers to the fact that Vaughan was accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra, but without Count Basie. Reviewing the album for Allmusic, Scott Yanow gave it a four-and-a-half stars rating and called it ""one of the best of all Sarah Vaughan recordings. Highly recommended"". It features ""astounding vocalese"" from Vaughan on tracks including ""Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"" and ""No 'Count Blues"". 5 January 1958 (2, 3, 8) 15 December 1958 (1) 23 December 1958 (4, 5, 6, 7, 9)"
"day. He didn't have to try. It just came out"". A family friend, Steve Stevenson, noticed that within a few days Jimmie was able to demonstrate what he had learned. Vaughan himself was a gifted protégé, no less quick to learn than his brother, and was playing the guitar with striking virtuosity by the time he was seventeen. In that year, 1972, Vaughan brought his band Blackbird to Austin to play at Rolling Hills Country Club, later Soap Creek Saloon. Vaughan then joined a band called Krackerjack, during a stint that lasted three months. He had accepted offers from several"
"Sarah Vaughan Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer. Nicknamed ""Sassy"" and ""The Divine One"", she won four Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. 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"". Vaughan's father, Asbury ""Jake"" Vaughan, was a carpenter by trade and played guitar and piano. Her mother, Ada Vaughan, was a laundress who sang in the church choir. Jake and Ada Vaughan migrated to Newark, New Jersey from Virginia during"
"Sarah Vaughan, and was part of Nat Jaffe's trio. In 1945, he began performing with Arthur Godfrey on CBS Radio and taught Godfrey to play the ukulele. He was with the Godfrey show for twenty-seven years. He changed his name legally in 1952 to Palmier, omitting the ""i"" at the end, to avoid being confused with Eddie Palmieri. When the Godfrey show was canceled in 1972, Palmier returned to playing clubs in New York. In 1977 his friend Herb Ellis convinced Carl Jefferson to invite Palmier to the Concord Jazz Festival in Concord, California. At the festival Palmier and Ellis"
"and ""Boss Tenors"" for Verve, both recorded in Chicago. Williams attended Combs College of Music in Philadelphia irregularly during and after his tenure with the Ammons/Stitt group. He learned composition, syntax, harmony and theory from Dr. Roland Wiggins. Williams was hired by Dakota Staton after hearing him at a gig in Wilmington, Delaware with the Gerald Price Trio in 1961. This was closely followed by work with Betty Carter in 1962 and Sarah Vaughan in 1963. Vaughan took him on his first European tour, during which he connected with the Miles Davis Quintet on the French Riviera. In 1964, Williams"
"the United States Marine Corps in 1958. Gaffney left the Marines in 1961, and resumed playing the piano on his return to New York. Gaffney became noted as a backer and arranger for Jazz vocalists, and moved to the Chicago area in the late 1960s. It was during the 1960s that Gaffney first met Jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan, when he was musical director of the Playboy Club in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Gaffney moved to California in the early 1970s and began to work as a studio musician and accompanist. Working in television, his most notable musical work was for ""Moonlighting"""
"begin recording as a leader for Musicraft until May 7, 1946. In the intervening time, she recorded for Crown and Gotham and began performing regularly at Café Society Downtown, an integrated club in New York's Sheridan Square. While at Café Society, Vaughan became friends with trumpeter George Treadwell, who became her manager. She delegated to him most of the musical director responsibilities for her recording sessions, allowing her to concentrate on singing. Over the next few years, Treadwell made changes in Vaughan's stage appearance. Aside from a new wardrobe and hair style, she had her teeth capped, eliminating a gap"
"The Divine One The Divine One is a 1961 studio album by Sarah Vaughan, arranged by Jimmy Jones. One of Vaughan's first albums for Roulette Records, ""The Divine One"" was, along with ""Sassy"" a nickname for Vaughan. The Allmusic review by John Bush awarded the album four stars and said that ""Recorded just after Sarah Vaughan joined the Roulette label...The Divine One found her in exactly the right circumstances to suit her excellent talents. Arranged by Jimmy Jones...the setting was a small group that included one strong voice to accentuate hers - and no less a strong and clear voice"
"Hill; the BRIT School in Selhurst, Croydon; Osidge JMI School and then Ashmole School. After toying around with her brother Alex's guitar, Winehouse bought her own when she was 14 and began writing music a year later. Soon after, she began working for a living, including, at one time, as an entertainment journalist for the World Entertainment News Network, in addition to singing with local group the Bolsha Band. In July 2000, she became the featured female vocalist with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra; her influences were to include Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington, the latter of whom she was"
"Club. She spent time at Braddock Grill next to the Apollo Theater in Harlem. On May 11, 1945, she 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. Later that month, she went into the studio with a slightly different and larger Gillespie/Parker aggregation and recorded three more sides. After being invited by violinist Stuff Smith to record the song ""Time and Again"" in October, Vaughan was offered a contract to record for Musicraft by owner Albert Marx, although she would not"
"an offer to travel to Hull and sing with Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway of The Beautiful South. Soon after she was asked to go to Milan with the band to help record their debut album, ""Welcome to the Beautiful South"". She appeared alongside Dave Hemingway on the band's only UK Singles Chart number 1 single, ""A Little Time"". After appearing on three albums, Corrigan left the band in 1992 to pursue a solo career. The decision was driven by a desire to record her own work and partly by ethical disagreements with some of Heaton's lyrics, particularly songs such"
"John Vaughan. In 1982, she toured Europe with Bonnie Lee and Big Time Sarah, billed as ""Blues with the Girls"", and recorded an album in Paris. She was later cast in the role of Bessie Smith in the stage show ""The Heart of the Blues"". By 1991 she had recorded the album, ""Travelin' Light"", with the Canadian guitarist Colin Linden. Young has toured Europe more than thirty times and has made appearances in Turkey and Taiwan. She was the featured performer at the Chicago Blues Festival six times. In 2014, she was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the"
"Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement, UCLA Spring Sing. San Francisco and Berkeley, California, made March 27 Sarah Lois Vaughan Day. Sarah Vaughan Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer. Nicknamed ""Sassy"" and ""The Divine One"", she won four Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. 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"". Vaughan's father, Asbury ""Jake"" Vaughan, was a carpenter by trade and played guitar and piano. Her mother, Ada"
"Her Finnish-born mother, who worked for an airline, was the breadwinner in their unorthodox household. Her father was a writer who sang songs by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Neil Young and Bob Dylan around the house. Growing up, Palmer played the family piano whenever possible, and played the flute in a school music ensemble. In the eighth grade, she switched to the saxophone so that she could sing with the school's jazz band. She soon began singing standards with the group, and became inspired by jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, whose innovative interpretations would make an enormous mark on Palmer's style."
"Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown, also known as Sarah Vaughan, is a 1955 jazz album featuring Grammy Award winning singer Sarah Vaughan and influential trumpeter Clifford Brown, released on the EmArcy label. It was the only collaboration between the pair, and though originally eponymous was re-issued under a new title to emphasize the appearance of the popular trumpeter. Well received, though not without some criticism, the album was Vaughan's own favorite among her works through 1980. The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The album has been re-released on CD"
"Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown, also known as Sarah Vaughan, is a 1955 jazz album featuring Grammy Award winning singer Sarah Vaughan and influential trumpeter Clifford Brown, released on the EmArcy label. It was the only collaboration between the pair, and though originally eponymous was re-issued under a new title to emphasize the appearance of the popular trumpeter. Well received, though not without some criticism, the album was Vaughan's own favorite among her works through 1980. The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The album has been re-released on CD"
"rock band named Krackerjack; he performed with them for less than three months. In March 1973, Vaughan joined Marc Benno's band, the Nightcrawlers, after meeting Benno at a jam session years before. The band featured vocalist Doyle Bramhall, who met Vaughan when he was twelve years old. The next month, the Nightcrawlers recorded an album at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood for A&M Records. While the album was rejected by A&M, it included Vaughan's first songwriting efforts, ""Dirty Pool"" and ""Crawlin'"". Soon afterward, he and the Nightcrawlers traveled back to Austin without Benno. In mid-1973, they signed a contract with"
"critical success; the album quickly outpaced the sales of ""Texas Flood"". After the addition of keyboardist Reese Wynans in 1985, the band released ""Soul to Soul"" and toured in support of the album, which was their first as a quartet. However, Vaughan's drug and alcohol habits continued to escalate. In September 1986, the band traveled to Denmark to begin a European leg of the Soul to Soul Tour. By this time, Vaughan had reached the peak of his substance abuse. He would consume a quart (0.95 L) of whiskey and an ounce (7 g) of cocaine each day. According to"
"She made some small-group recordings in 1950 with Miles Davis and Bennie Green, but they were atypical of what she recorded for Columbia. In 1949, Vaughan had a radio program, ""Songs by Sarah Vaughan"", on WMGM in New York City. The fifteen-minute shows were broadcast in the evenings on Wednesday through Sunday from The Clique Club, described as ""rendezvous of the bebop crowd."" She was accompanied by George Shearing on piano, Oscar Pettiford on double bass, and Kenny Clarke on drums. In 1953, Treadwell negotiated a contract for Vaughan with Mercury in which she would record commercial material for Mercury"