Sarah Vaughan – Vinyl Story – Vinyl LP

Her biographers say she departed in 1990. Don’t believe a word of it. The living memory enclosed in this Swingin’ Easy album, makes her insolently alive for us, resplendent under the sun of her thirty years, her timbre unbelievably rich and warm, her technical mastery astounding, perfect diction, and that je-ne-sais-quoi that causes mind and body to quiver. Here she is, at an age when anything goes, a Musician among Musicians — with a capital M — like pianists Jimmy Jones and John Malachi, drummer Roy Haynes, bass players Richard Davis and Joe Benjamin. Great jazz in every track, the best of her best, the cream of her crop. Definitive and indispensable, period.

1 Shulie a Bop
2 Lover Man
3 I Cried for You
4 Polka Dots and Moonbeams
5 All of Me
6 Words Can’t Describe
7 Prelude to a Kiss
8 You Hit the Spot
9 Pennies from Heaven
10 If I Knew Then
11 Body and Soul
12 They Can’t Take That Away from Me