sarah vaughan
According to Joseph Levey of The Jazz Experience: A Guide to Appreciation, "The jazz song is, at least, partially a literary form of expression; instrumental music is an abstract form of expression. Jazz singing involves lyrics, words, and ideas, whereas jazz playing is a purely musical statement. Thus, the jazz singer is limited improvisationally, to a degree, because he or she is locked into lyrics". However, there are few jazz singers that have managed to overcome the limitations such as The Divine One....Sarah Vaughan. Sarah Vaughan outstanding works on the CD Golden Hits truly promotes how ballads, standards, and traditional commercial pop songs can be reborn. With the vocal style from the legendary Ethel Waters, Vaughan's success has come from her ability to master improvisation along with her male counterparts such as Billy Eckstine and Earl Hines. Improvisation is the art of creating all or part of an composition at the moment of performance...dealing with effective chords sequences, rhymthic patterns, melodic motives combined and varied allows a singer to use spontaneous creativity wh
In the song Lover Man, Sarah Vaughan lonesomely sings through to find her true love. Her vocal tone reminds me of the sorrowful and "life deteriorated" voice of Billie Holiday. The piano, bass, cymbals and drums are low in the background but become louder when she stresses parts of being lonely. For example when she says " never had no kissing...got a moooooon above me, but noneone to love meeeee, the music stops for a split second then starts louder when she ask "lover mannn where can u be?" In addition to, the line "I heard that sitting at the thrill of romance can be like a heavenly dream, which is an 19 syllable statement, but Vaughan bends and stretches these words to produce 15 syllable line. This is another skill of Vaughan. The Banana Boat Song, the last track on the CD, has a kind of Caribbean jazz content. The nature of Vaughan's voice is likening to a native of the area that wants to be liberated from work to go home. The horns, banjoes, maracas, drums and cowbells are held at a heighten steady pace until the stress for the end of the work day is mention, in which they blare out in rebellion against working any further. Behind the waving voice of Vaughan, her male backup voices are repetitive imitate a riding tenor chorus line sim
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