The majority of the CDs I review are either new releases or recordings that reflect the current trends in popular music. These trends had their genesis in the amalgamation of African American music ...

Sarah Vaughan was already considered one of the greatest singers of her era when she signed with Mercury Records in 1954. She was given the charge to record jazz for the subsidiary EmArcy, pop for the ...

Vaughan had a gallery of vocal timbres: gravelly to silky, round or strident, white-gloved or blues-drenched. Her pitch range was operatic and her low notes have uncommon power. She drew inspiration ...

This is FRESH AIR. Jazz and pop and classical singer Sarah Vaughan was born 100 years ago today in Newark, N.J. As a girl, she sang in church in Newark before breaking into show business at New York's ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Like Vaughan, singer/songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway possesses one of those ...

This June, we celebrate the legendary vocalist Sarah Vaughan - who was a mainstay on the global stage from the '40s all the way up until her passing in 1990. One of Vaughan's defining traits was that ...

Whatever else you want to say about Sarah Vaughan, she was an artist of extremes, and often of contradictions. She was born with a voice that, if not for the color of her skin in her generation, would ...

Clive Myrie presents a star-studded celebration of one of the most iconic voices of the 20th Century from Guy Barker, the BBC Concert Orchestra, Clarke Peters and Marisha Wallace. Featuring some of ...

Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, ...