Now let’s turn our attention to a vocalist who epitomized — but couldn’t be contained by — jazz: Sarah Vaughan, “The Divine One,” owner of perhaps the most impressive vocal instrument ...

In the 1940s, when most women singers adorned big bands as stage attractions rather than legitimate members of jazz ensembles, Sarah Vaughan, along with her predecessor Ella Fitzgerald, helped elevate ...

Sarah Vaughan (1924 – 1990 ... On this 1986 episode of Piano Jazz, Vaughan talks about her start as a jazz singer and explains how she uses the piano to learn her songs. She sings "Tenderly ...

This is FRESH AIR. Jazz and pop and classical singer Sarah Vaughan was born 100 years ago today in Newark, N.J. As a girl, she sang in church in Newark before breaking into show business at New ...

Toward the end of her performance, she invited guests up on the stage, and it was the ideal ending to a luminous evening honoring a jazz legend, the late Sarah Vaughan. It was evident that Vaughan ...

In 1942, a teenage Sarah Vaughan won the Apollo Theater’s amateur singing competition in a performance that was a launching pad for a career that transformed one of America’s original art ...

It featured such contemporary jazz vocal greats as Cyrille Aimée, Jazzmeia Horn, and Gregory Porter. As far as Manhattan is concerned, the big event is the two-night “Sarah Vaughan Centennial” at Jazz ...

As though that weren’t enough to secure the singer’s legacy, the competition also included the Sarah Vaughan New Artist Award, which went to Jazzmeia “Jazz” Horn. A student at the New ...

It was the end of an era when jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan died on April 3, 1990. In a career that spanned almost five decades, Vaughan, known as "Sassy" and "The Divine One," thrilled audiences ...