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 ...

Seventy years ago, a teenaged Sarah Vaughan won the famed Apollo Theatre amateur night, launching her own career and the raising the profile of jazz vocalists everywhere. Tomorrow, the TD James ...

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 ...

Having earned a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2001 for her studio album, The Calling: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan,Reeves acted as a speaker and singer for the evening ceremony.

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 ...

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 ...

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) has announced the opening of the 14th annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. Solo vocalists from around the world are encouraged ...