Sassy: The Life of Sarah Vaughan.

Notes | September 1, 1994| | Copyright

Sarah Vaughan possessed one of the most remarkable voices in jazz--a voice of great beauty, suppleness, flexibility, and power. She had a full two-octave range, perfect pitch, and an improvisatory ability the equal of any instrumentalist. She could easily have been a diva in the world of opera, but early in life Vaughan was drawn to jazz and so lent her talents to it for over forty years.

Sassy: The Life of Sarah Vaughan by Leslie Gourse is the first full-length study of this important jazz artist. Unfortunately, it is a lightweight treatment of a true musical ...

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