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Sarah Vaughan After Hours

Pure Pleasure | Item No: 486938
Vinyl LP | 1962 / UK – Reissue | New
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Item Description
This Roulette Records' 1961 Birdland Series LP of Sarah Vaughan's After Hours was the first ever album by 'Sassy' to feature just her voice with bass (George Duvivier) and guitar (Mundell Lowe) in a program of mostly ballads, with Miss Vaughan crooning quietly in a rarely used style. Her voice is at its peak on these intimate, relaxed, almost spontaneous sessions. A true jazz classic of considerable beauty, with George and Mundell perfectly complementing 'the Divine Sarah' as she runs through a set of carefully chosen (yet unrehearsed) favorites, all songs one might've heard her perform in a smoky club well "After Hours".
Just one gorgeous track after another here. On "Wonder Why" Vaughan plumbs the depths of her vocal range. "Easy To Love" features an outstanding walking bass line. They swing it so well, Sarah is moved to finger-snap. Her exquisite enunciation and vocal sliding are most noticeable on a mellow cover of Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady". The LP's most energetic song, "Great Day" again spotlights George's amazing bass work. A mere fragment, it fades out much too soon. On an impressive "Sentimental Mood", Sassy utilizes sharp, flat and quarter tones, and a few notes perhaps never heard before. The facáde of aloofness that shields a broken heart in "Vanity" makes for a melancholy, yet apropos, set closer.
- Annie Van Auken
Item Details
Item No: 486938
Artist: Sarah Vaughan
Title: After Hours
Label: Pure Pleasure
Catalog No: Pure Pleasure SR 52070
Format: Vinyl LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: UK – Reissue
Release Date: 1962
Genre: Organic Grooves
Style: Jazz | Fusion
Available since: 2016-07-01
Condition: New
Price: $ 26.35 $ 21.08
Weight: 250g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 My Favorite Things
A2 Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
A3 Wonder Why
A4 Easy To Love
A5 Sophisticated Lady
B1 Great Day
B2 Ill Wind
B3 If Love Is Good To Me
B4 In A Sentimental Mood
B5 Vanity
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