Sarah Vaughan Trouble Is a Man Naxos Jazz Legends 8.120763
Original 1946-1948 Recordings
20 tracks of superb smoochy sleaze from sexy Sarah make up this marvellous collection for late-night listening. Some will be familiar to anyone who’s ever heard any forties popular jazz, others less so. Standards including I Cover the Waterfront, Tenderly, The Man I Love, I Get a Kick Out of You, What a Difference a Day Made and Nature Boy are all carried off with great panache while the gospel number ‘Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child’ is absolutely sublime. And I must say the arrangements and orchestrations, provided by half a dozen different bands, supply perfect settings for the great lady’s vocal stylings. Yes, this is yet another wonderfully compiled & packaged CD from Naxos that cannot be faulted especially at the price they ask. There’s no excuse not to get fully educated in twentieth century music while Naxos is in business!
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