Ann Hampton Callaway: The Sarah Vaughan Project
Callaway has the tone and timbre of the later Vaughan style, the sensitive attention to lyric and the emotional showmanship to carry it off spectacularly.
Callaway has the tone and timbre of the later Vaughan style, the sensitive attention to lyric and the emotional showmanship to carry it off spectacularly.
Musical comedy is a revered genre in both cabaret and Broadway, and Faith Prince is one of its finest practitioners.
Her songwriting skills put her in a league with the greats.
If We Only Have Love improves on successive hearings, but well worth buying just for “One Note Samba.”
I have seen Schuur a number of times, but have never heard her in better voice than in her current stay at Birdland.
Joanne Tatham is sheer jazz baby here. Musicianship is excellent.
La-Tanya-Hall-Sarah-Vaughan-Cabaret-Scenes-Magazine_212It takes a special voice to do justice to Sarah Vaughan, who I rate as one of the five greatest female vocalists of all time. La Tanya Hall has such a voice.