SARAH VAUGHAN – 1944-1946 | The Classics Chronological Series – 958 (1997) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

This first installment in the complete chronological recordings of Sarah Vaughan is a gold mine of great jazz dating from turbulent and transitional times. It's also one of the very best Sarah Vaughan retrospectives ever made available to the public. Vaughan positively glows in front of every ensemble lucky enough to back her, as she performs in an almost bewildering series of outstanding recordings on the De Luxe, Continental, Guild, Crown, Gotham, H.R.S., and Musicraft labels. She appears as a 20-year-old featured with Billy Eckstine's Orchestra, then sitting in with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, with violinist Stuff Smith's Trio, and with the amazing John Kirby Sextet (here billed as his orchestra). She rubs shoulders with Trummy Young, Dicky Wells, Tony Scott, Ben Webster, Freddy Webster, Al Cohn, Serge Chaloff, Flip Phillips, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons, Leo Parker, Georgie Auld, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Sid Catlett, Max Roach, and pianist Jimmy Jones, destined to accompany Vaughan intermittently until 1958. The jazz talent assembled on this one disc is nothing short of formidable. Sarah Vaughan began her recording career in the eye of the hurricane of jazz in New York during the mid-'40s. This incredible compilation documents exactly how she went about it. arwulf arwulf  

Tracklist :
1     I'll Wait and Pray 2'55
George Treadwell / Gerald Valentine     
2     Signing Off 2'37
Leonard Feather / Bob Russell     
3     Interlude (A Night in Tunisia) 2'28
Dizzy Gillespie / Raymond Leveen / Frank Paparelli     
4     No Smokes Blues 2'25
Leonard Feather / Sarah Vaughan     
5     East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) 2'50
Brooks Bowman    
6     Lover Man 3'20
Jimmy Davis / Roger "Ram" Ramirez / Jimmy Sherman    
7     What More Can a Woman Do 3'00
Dave Barbour / Peggy Lee    
8     I'd Rather Have a Memory Than a Dream 2'40
Leonard Feather / Bob Russell
9     Mean to Me 2'39
Fred E. Ahlert / Roy Turk
10     Time and Again 3'20
Stuff Smith    
11     I'm Scared 2'32
Raymond Leveen / Lou Singer
12     You Go to My Head 3'00
J. Fred Coots / Haven Gillespie
13     I Could Make You Love Me 2'44
Peter DeRose / Bob Russell
14     It Might as Well Be Spring 2'58
Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers
15     All Too Soon 2'51
Duke Ellington / Carl Sigman
16     We're Through 2'37
Tadd Dameron / Jesse Greer
17    A Hundred Years from Today 2'54
Ned Washington / Joseph Young
18     If You Could See Me Now 2'48
Tadd Dameron / Carl Sigman
19     I Can Make You Love Me 3'01
Peter DeRose / Bob Russell
20     You're Not the Kind 2'45
Will Hudson / Irving Mills
21     My Kinda Love 2'37
Louis Alter / Jo Trent
22     You're Blasé 2'59
Ord Hamilton / Bruce Sievier
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