[.ca] Sassy Swings The Tivoli

From Amazon.com:
This two-CD set presents two hours of Sarah Vaughan performing in Copenhagen's Tivoli over a four-day period in 1963. It's Vaughan doing what she did regularly, singing strong material in the context of her working trio, made up here of pianist Kirk Stuart, bassist Charles Williams, and drummer George Hughes. Producer Quincy Jones supposedly worked with her on selecting the tunes, but there are no surprises. The material is all familiar standards and jazz tunes, and those songs that might be unusual in another singer's repertoire--"Black Coffee" or "Poor Butterfly"--were mainstays in Vaughan's. These are wonderful performances. Vaughan's voice was as fine an instrument as has ever sung jazz and her timbre was without peer. Scatting on an uptempo song like "Sometimes I'm Happy" or her own medium-tempo "Sassy's Blues," she's as fluently inventive as almost any instrumentalist. While her ballads would sometimes become stagy in live performances--complete with asides to the band or audience--they could also be marvelous, and there are many in that category here. Vaughan's sound is so variable that she sometimes gives the impression another singer has begun a song, and she can range within a single song from the richest depths to soaring, fluting highs. There are dual versions of a few songs here--"What Is This Thing Called Love," "Lover Man," "I Cried for You"--and they demonstrate just how spontaneously creative Vaughan was. --Stuart Broomer

Un Essentiel amazon.fr:
Sarah Vaughan, radieuse, dans l'un de ses plus beaux tours de chant. Après son passage dans les fameux jardins de Tivoli, les nuits de Copenhague ne seront plus les mêmes. C'est la première fois qu'elle se rend au Danemark. Est-ce la beauté des lieux qui l'inspire ? Toujours est-il que Sarah, étourdissante, ne s'est jamais sentie aussi à l'aise. Elle alterne avec bonheur ballades et morceaux de bravoure, change de registre avec une stupéfiante facilité, la très large tessiture de sa voix lui permettant toutes les audaces. Sassy s'amuse, plaisante avec le public et les musiciens de son trio, prend des libertés avec les mélodies qu'elle élève pour les porter au ciel. Sur tempos rapides, ses scats sont prodigieux d'invention, son phrasé d'une élastique souplesse. L'énergique chanteuse est aussi la plus émouvante des interprètes. Ses tendres versions de "Misty", "Lover Man", "Over The Rainbow" sont des moments inoubliables. Cette voix-là ensorcelle, vous fait perdre la tête. C'est le chant d'une sirène, comment y résister ? --Pierre de Chocqueuse

Three-way love child of Ella F., Billie H., and Paul Motian:
Why do Sarah-philes buy her orchestral-fronted crap anyhow? She's so smooth, so fluid, so damn...confident and playful in this recording. Music to which ya gotta dance in the light. Hey...nuff respect to Kirk Stuart for keepin' up with her octaval indulgences. Can't keep from smilin' when this is on...who among ya can't be this connected?? The only Sarah Vaughan CD you need to own. Tell a friend...

The goddess Sarah, Thalia (luxurious voice! ):
This is Sarah at the peak of her voice, The best CD to own, arranged by Quincy Jones, Sarah uses her considerable vocal instrument to breathe new life into standards, just listen to Maria. Every song on this double CD is worth listening to over and over, for jazz vocalist, this is a must have!

Sass is THE BEST:
Sarah Vaughan is my absolute favortie singer, no one, living or dead, compares. Not only does she have the most incredible voice and lung capacity, she is one of (if not, THE) the most creative and adventurous vocalists who ever lived. This live performance captures Sass at her best. This disk contains some of her best vocals of well known songs associated with her such as "Poor Butterfly", "Tenderly", "Misty". Warning: one taste of Sarah and you will be hooked!

MESMERIZING:
Sometimes some people call herself or himself a singer or a musician. They should listen to this record before. No singer past, present, future can be compared to Sarah Vaughan. She was music. Period. This album is surely one of her best, one absolutly to have from his illustrious 4 decades career. THE album from Sarah. Jazz at its absolute best. Music at its absolute best. Art at its absolute best. Sarah will always be there, with Bird, Diz, Monk, Miles, Art, Wes ... the greatest musicians who ever lived. I repeat this album is the MonnaLisa in Jazz.

• I Feel Pretty
• Misty
• What Is This Thing Called Love?
• Lover Man
• Sometimes I'm Happy
• Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?
• Tenderly
• Sassy's Blues
• Polka Dots and Moonbeams
• I Cried for You
• Poor Butterfly
• I Could Write a Book
• Time After Time
• All of Me
• I Hadn't Anyone Till You
• I Can't Give You Anything But Love
• I'll Be Seeing You
• Maria
• Day In - Day Out
• Fly Me to the Moon
• Baubles, Bangles and Beads
• Lady's in Love With You
• Honeysuckle Rose
• What Is This Thing Called Love?
• Lover Man
• I Cried for You
• More I See You
• Say It Isn't So
• Black Coffee
• Just One of Those Things
• On Green Dolphin Street
• Over the Rainbow