Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown

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Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown
Studio album by Sarah Vaughan and Clifford Brown

Publication
(s)

1954

admission

December 16 and 18, 1954

Label (s) EmArcy

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

9 (10) or 17

running time

46:08 (50:06) and 70:18

occupation
  • Singing: Sarah Vaughan
  • Trumpet: Clifford Brown
  • Tenor saxophone: Paul Quinichette
  • Flute: Herbie Mann
  • Piano: Jimmy Jones
  • Double bass: Joe Benjamin
  • Drums: Roy Haynes
  • Conductor: Ernie Wilkins
  • Piano: John Malachi

production

Bob Shad

Studio (s)

Fine sound

Location (s)

New York City

chronology
The Divine Sarah Sings (1954) Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown In the Land of Hi-Fi (1955)

Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown , also known as Sarah Vaughan , is a jazz album released in 1954 by American singer Sarah Vaughan and American jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown .

album

Recording and publication

The album was recorded on December 16 and 18, 1954 at the Fine Sound recording studio in New York City and released by the record label EmArcy Records in December 1954. Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown was re-released many times on LP and CD, originally had nine tracks and was supplemented with a second take of Lullaby of Birdland on later releases . In 2005 the album was released under the name Sarah Vaughan With Clifford Brown - Complete Recordings by the Lone Hill Jazz label with a total of 18 titles.

background

The recordings were the only collaboration between the two artists. The album, although originally released under the name Sarah Vaughan , was later re-released under the new name Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown to emphasize the involvement of the now popular trumpeter. Well received, although not without minor flaws, the album was Sarah Vaughan's own favorite of her works until 1980. In 1999 Sarah Vaughan was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame with Clifford Brown .

Sarah Vaughan was at the height of her success and was eager to record with new star trumpeter Clifford Brown, whom she admired. Both still hired Herbie Mann (through Quincy Jones ) and Paul Quinichette. The rhythm section of Jimmy Jones (p), Joe Benjamin (b) and Roy Haynes (dr) was Vaughan's accompaniment at the time. Looking back, Herbie Mann remembers working with Clifford Brown, whom he admired and whose melodic style he then oriented. According to Mann, the recording session itself was pretty casual: Sarah Vaughan brooded over her musical ideas and then abruptly handed notes to Quinichette, Mann and Brown before recording with the laconic words Paul, here's your note, Herbie, here's your note, Brownie, here's your note . Four days after recording with Sarah Vaughan, Clifford Brown recorded with Helen Merrill for EmArcy under the direction of Quincy Jones.

On the first day September Song, Lullaby of Birdland, I'm glad there is you, You're not the kind were recorded, in the second session Jim, He's my guy, April in Paris, It's crazy, Embraceable you .

Track list

Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown

  1. Lullaby of Birdland ( George Shearing , George David Weiss ) - 4:00
  2. April in Paris ( Vernon Duke , EY Harburg ) - 6:21
  3. He's My Guy ( Gene de Paul , Don Raye ) - 4:13
  4. Jim ( Caesar Petrillo , Edward Ross, Nelson Shawn) - 5:54
  5. You're Not the Kind (Will Hudson, Irving Mills ) - 4:44
  6. Embraceable You ( George Gershwin , Ira Gershwin ) - 4:51
  7. I'm Glad There Is You ( Jimmy Dorsey , Paul Mertz) - 5:11
  8. September Song ( Maxwell Anderson , Kurt Weill ) - 5:46
  9. It's Crazy ( Dorothy Fields , Richard Rodgers ) - 5:06

Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown - Complete Recordings (additional titles from 10)

Contributors

Musicians and their instruments

Production staff of the original album

reception

The album Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown received consistently high marks from jazz critics:

  • In his book Bebop: The Best Musicians and Recordings , the jazz critic Scott Yanow remarks about the album that “everything was successful”, which makes it an “important acquisition”.
  • The Ink Blot Magazine characterized the album as a jazziest of Sarah Vaughams and best albums.
  • John Bush gives All Music 5 out of 5 stars, says that “Vaughan is in the best vocal shape of her career here” and praises Clifford Brown for “his incredible bop virtuosity”. The album is "one of the most important 'jazz-meets-vocal' sessions ... that has ever been recorded."
  • The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz also praises Brown's brilliant trumpet playing and delves into Vaughan's singing style in detail. The editor and author of the book chapter, Barry Kernfeld, says that "perhaps it is this sheer dedication to exploring sound that has made the album such a darling among jazz listeners."
  • In the book Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings of Jazz critic of the designated New York Times , Ben Ratliff , the album as one of the best of Sarah Vaughan.
  • The Penguin Guide to Jazz chose the album as part of their "Core Collection", declared "it is very difficult to find any flaws in what must be called one of the great jazz vocal recordings" and awarded it the crown - Status.
  • The Jazzwise Magazine has the album in 2006 in its list of " The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World added".

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan. Retrieved January 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan. Accessed January 28, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Sarah Vaughan With Clifford Brown. Retrieved January 28, 2019 .
  4. ^ A b c Sarah Vaughan With Clifford Brown - Complete Recordings. Retrieved January 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Leslie Gourse: Sassy: The Life Of Sarah Vaughan . Da Capo Press, 1994, ISBN 0-7867-5114-2 , pp. 78 .
  6. ^ Grammy Hall of Fame. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Catalano, Clifford Brown, Oxford UP 2000, p. 140
  8. ↑ Additional track for some re-releases
  9. ^ Scott Yanow: Bebop: The Best Musicians and Recordings . Backbeat Books, San Francisco, CA / Milwaukee, WI 2000, ISBN 0-87930-608-4 , pp. 182-183 .
  10. ↑ Barry Kernfeld: The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz . Blackwell Publishing, 1995, ISBN 0-631-19552-1 , pp. 334 .
  11. ↑ Ben Ratliff: Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings (=  New York Times Essential Library ). 1st edition. Times Books, New York 2002, ISBN 0-8050-7068-0 , pp. 91 .
  12. ↑ Richard Cook: Sarah Vaughan . In: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, New York 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 , pp. 1325 .
  13. ^ The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World. Retrieved January 30, 2019 .