Live at Rosy's

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Live at Rosy's
Live album by Sarah Vaughan

Publication
(s)

2016

Label (s) Resonance Records

Format (s)

2 CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

22nd

occupation

production

Zev Feldman

Live at Rosy’s is a jazz album by Sarah Vaughan . The recording was made on May 31, 1978 during a performance by the singer at Rosy's jazz club in New Orleans and was released on March 25, 2016 on Resonance Records .

background

Sarah Vaughan was 54 years old and in the middle of a successful comeback; During this phase, the singer recorded a number of albums for producer Norman Granz on his Pablo label and performed in a number of small clubs around the world. She was accompanied by a trio consisting of Walter Booker on bass, Jimmy Cobb on drums and the young arranger Carl Schroeder on piano. This is the group that can also be heard on the two CDs Live at Rosy's . In May 1978, not long after Pablo's first release, Vaughan arrived for a week in New Orleans at Rosy's, a jazz club owned by 21-year-old Rosalie Wilson.

The presentation was for the NPR program Jazz Alive added; A few years before the album was released, Tim Owens, who had produced the series, told Zev Feldman , the co-boss of Resonance Records, of the existence of tapes that would contain the unabridged hours of the show. Vaughan mainly interpreted her rich repertoire of standards such as " I'll Remember April ", " I Fall in Love Too Easily ", " East of the Sun ", "Time After Time", and of course "Send in the Clowns". The “light-hearted Vaughan” can also be recognized, wrote Christopher Loudon, if you listen to Disc 1, Track 9, when she calls out to the audience for song requests and hears “ A-Tisket A-Tasket ” from someone who appears to be with her Ella confused Fitzgerald , who had a big hit with it 40 years ago. That made Vaughan deadly serious to say, "Well, I'll be damned ... He thinks I'm Lena Horne ". "But then I'll tell you who I am," then delve into the melody, in a perfectly accurate imitation of Ella's little girl's voice.

The edition is supplemented by essays by James Gavin and Will Friedwald as well as interviews with Wilson, Jimmy Cobb, Walter Booker and Vaughan's only label colleague, the singer Helen Merrill .

Track list

Walter Booker
  • Sarah Vaughan: Live at Rosy's (Resonance Records - HCD-2017)
CD 1
  1. I'll Remember April ( Gene DePaul / Patricia Johnston / Don Raye ) 3:45
  2. I Fall in Love to Easily ( Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne ) 3:42
  3. Volume (intro) 1:29
  4. East of the Sun (Brooks Bowman) 3:08
  5. I've Got a Lot of Living to Do (Charles Strouse) 2:13
  6. Time After Time (Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne) 3:45
  7. Somebody Loves Me ( Buddy DeSylva / George Gershwin / Ballard MacDonald ) 2:06
  8. Poor Butterfly (John Golden / Raymond Hubbell) 4:57
  9. A A-Tisket A-Tasket ( Van Alexander / Ella Fitzgerald ) 1:49
  10. Send in the Clowns ( Stephen Sondheim ) 6:00
  11. Sarah's Blues (Walter Booker / Jimmy Cobb / Carl Schroeder / Sarah Vaughan) 7:47
CD 2
  1. The Man I Love (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin ) 4:45
  2. I Got It Bad (And That Aint 'Good) ( Duke Ellington / Paul Francis Webster ) 5:12
  3. Watch What Happens (Jacques Louis Demy / Norman Gimbel / Michel Legrand ) 2:43
  4. If You Went Away (Ray Gilbert / Marcos Valle / Paulo Sérgio Valle) 5:39
  5. I Could Write a Book ( Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers ) 3:00
  6. I Remember You ( Johnny Mercer / Victor Schertzinger ) 5:01
  7. Fascinating Rhythm (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin) 4:00
  8. Everything Must Change ( Benard Ighner ) 6:46
  9. Like Someone in Love ( Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen ) 2:40
  10. My Funny Valentine (Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers) 5:17
  11. Ending Theme 1:08

reception

Fred Kaplan wrote in Sterophile, “Sarah, The Divine One , is clearly having a great time, singing octaves, holding notes with a velvet vibrato , turning ballads into vamps, vamps into speed festivals, and sometimes she sings straight. It also has a great comic flair. ”The sound quality of the recording can be described as very good, apart from the playback of the drums, which are a bit thin.

Sarah Vaugha performing in the Kurhaus Scheveningen in 1963

According to Christopher Loudon, who reviewed the album in JazzTimes , Sarah Vaughan was "in exemplary form: easy-going, imaginative and energetic, her tendency to overstylize in her career is largely kept in check." In the set with only standards, she preferred that Performance of ballads , a profession that she knows better than anyone else, including her signature tunes like “ The Man I Love ”, “Poor Butterfly” and “Send in the Clowns”. Although the recording was never intended for commercial release, the sound quality of these 22 tracks, which stretch over 90 minutes, is excellent.

Roy Booth said in Jazz Views: “These recordings show Sarah Vaughan in her favorite setting with a trio at a live gig. In this case, she sounds particularly relaxed and has fun. Although Sarah Vaughan recorded many different songs for her live gigs throughout her career, she tended to stick to the same song list with minor changes, but "Poor Butterfly" and "My Funny Valentine" were source material but always sang with depth and commitment. ”The trio at this gig is one that the singer has worked with for a while, which adds to the relaxed atmosphere. Walter Booker's bass is the only accompaniment to a laid-back "East of the Sun" that turns out to be one of the best versions of the track ever recorded. As the highlights of the recording, the author describes the pretty "Watch What Happens" with excellent piano accompaniment by Carl Schroeder, as well as "a deeply felt version of 'If You Went Away', which shows Sarah at her best and once again makes Carl Schröder stand out." Benard Ighner's "Every Thing Must Change" is not a song that many singers would tackle because of its complexity, but Sarah Vaughan has no problem with it. The recording is one of the best examples of Sarah in a live situation, which is also in particularly good shape with excellent accompaniment, so Roy Booth's summary.

Mark Smotroff said in Audiophile that it is always a welcome event when a new recording of jazz legend Sarah Vaughan comes out. It's even more exciting when the recording is high quality and even more exciting when it represents a somewhat underdocumented (and in some cases, perhaps undervalued) phase of your career. This is the case with Live at Rosy's . "In any case, it is nice to have a new, almost complete show from this time with excellent fidelity and to document a band that played it on stage with hundreds of appearances". The synergy of their joint performance is also shown by Rosy's ; these players "are all in harmony on a magical level, relaxed but quick to react, close but free, support each other and, above all, they support Sarah."

“The sound of this CD set is terrific,” continues Smotroff. “Sarah's voice is deeper and rounder than her more youthful recordings from the 50s and early 60s, but no less dynamic. In fact, it's undoubtedly more dynamic, spanning the octaves from rich, resonant growls to the sweetest trills. ”Among the author's favorites on this set is a“ fabulous version of Stephen Sondheim's 'Send in the Clowns'; in George Gershwin's "Fascinating Rhythm" she breaks the melody in the middle with a fake reference to Bach and the Swingle Sisters and underlines the musical connection. "Her version of" Everything Must Change "is a dark but gorgeous performance, that of accompanied by a moving piano, comparable to Stevie Wonder's “All in Love is Fair”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Fred Kaplan: Sarah Vaughan: Live at Rosy's. May 23, 2016, accessed on March 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Christopher Loudon: Sarah Vaughan: Live at Rosy's. May 6, 2016, accessed March 21, 2019 .
  3. ^ Roy Booth: Sarah Vaughan: Live at Rosy's. Jazz Views, May 1, 2016, accessed March 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Mark Smotroff: Sarah Vaughan: Live at Rosy's. Audiophile, April 11, 2016, accessed March 28, 2019 .