Sarah Vaughan

• DIGIPACK EDITION

During the mid-'50s, Sarah Vaughan spent most of her time recording songbook standards backed by a large orchestra in florid arrangements, with only the occasional breath of fresh air like her masterpiece, 1954's Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown. Four years after that milestone, another landed with the live album At Mister Kelly's.

Recorded quite early in the days of the live LP, the album captured Vaughan at her best and most relaxed, stretching out on a set of late-night torch songs and ballads. With a trio including Jimmy Jones on piano, Roy Haynes on drums, and Richard Davis on bass, Vaughan is simply captivating, easily disproving the notion that, to be entertaining, singers needed inventive arrangements and multiple voices (instrumental or otherwise) behind them. Her unerring sense of rhythm carries her through every song on this set, whether the occasion calls for playfulness and wit or a world-wise melancholia.

TRACKS:

• 01. September in the Rain
• 02. Willow Weep for Me
• 03. Just One of Those Things
• 04. Be Anything But Darling Be Mine
• 05. Thou Swell
• 06. Stairway to the Stars
• 07. Honeysuckle Rose
• 08. Just a Gigolo
• 09. How High the Moon