President Uk/Zoom
1997
Loverman
About This Album
This European compilation contains most of the studio recordings Sarah Vaughan participated in during her first two years as a recording artist, 1944-1946. It begins with a scratchy performance of "I'll Wait and Pray" by the Billy Eckstine Orchestra, which at the time featured Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons, and Art Blakey, originally released on De Luxe Records. This is followed by Vaughan's first session as a leader, at which she is accompanied by a septet including Gillespie, Georgie Auld, and Leonard Feather, recorded for Continental Records. Gillespie's All Star Quintet featuring Charlie Parker and Sid Catlett follows with the title track for Guild, then another Gillespie septet with Parker and Max Roach for Continental. The recording of "All Too Soon" by Tony Scott & His Down Beat Club Septet, featuring Gillespie and Ben Webster, is out of order and incorrectly dated; it took place on March 6, 1946, not in 1945. Vaughan's version of "Time and Again" with the Stuff Smith Trio marks her Musicraft Records debut, but she does sessions with the John Kirby Orchestra for Crown and with Dicky Wells' Big Seven for HRS before returning to Musicraft with the Auld Orchestra to cut "A Hundred Years from Today" on April 30, 1946, and, a week later, a four-song session with the Tadd Dameron Orchestra.
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