Sarah Vaughan - Sings George Gershwin (1957)

Sarah Vaughan - Sings George Gershwin (1957)

jazz | 2cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 920MB

Verve Master Edition

Verve:
As historic as is this summit meeting, Sarah Vaughan resisted being called a Gershwin interpreter -- she loathed being restricted to "straight" interpretation. Essayist Peter Keepnews says in the liner notes that Vaughan's refusal to sing just what was written yielded "textbook examples" of how the right interpretation can make a good piece of music even better.
The entirety of the original two Vaughan Sings Gershwin volumes are presented first, followed by, on disc two, a portion of one recording session as it went down -- all the takes, from the original tapes, which demonstrate Vaughan's uncanny variations in improvisation. With two previously unissued complete takes and more than forty minutes of bonus material in all.

Tracks

-01. "Isn't It a Pity?" – 3:53
-02. "Of Thee I Sing" – 3:10
-03. "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" (Buddy De Sylva, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:39
-04. "Someone to Watch over Me" – 3:58
-05. "Bidin' My Time" – 3:01
-06. "The Man I Love" – 3:34
-07. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" – 3:58
-08. "My One and Only (What Am I Gonna Do?)" – 3:13
-09. "Lorelei" – 2:32
-10. "I've Got a Crush on You" – 4:00
-11. "Summertime" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 2:51
-12. "Aren't You Kind Of Glad We Did?" – 3:27
-13. "They All Laughed" – 2:23
-14. "Looking For a Boy" – 3:38
-15. "He Loves and She Loves" – 3:24
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-01. "I Won't Say I Will" (DeSylva, G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:24
-02. "A Foggy Day" – 3:24
-03. "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" – 2:22
-04. "Things Are Looking Up" – 3:33
-05. "Do It Again" (DeSylva, I. Gershwin) – 3:13
-06. "Love Walked In" – 3:06
bonus
-07. "Of Thee I Sing" – 3:23
-08. "Summertime"
-09. "Things Are Looking Up" – 3:21
-10. "I Won't Say I Will" (Buddy DeSylva, G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 0:18
-11. "I Won't Say I Will" – 3:21
-12. "I Won't Say I Will" – 1:21
-13. "I Won't Say I Will" – 2:50
-14. "I Won't Say I Will" – 7:49
-15. "Of Thee I Sing" – 1:35
-16. "Of Thee I Sing" – 2:25
-17. "Of Thee I Sing" – 2:16
-18. "Of Thee I Sing" – 4:02
-19. "My One and Only (What Am I Gonna Do?)" – 1:47
-20. "My One and Only (What Am I Gonna Do?)" – 3:11
-21. "My One and Only (What Am I Gonna Do?)" – 4:34

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