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Hommage An Sarah Vaughan: «the Divine One» at Moods

Where

Moods
Jazz Verein Moods Schiffbaustrasse 6
Zurich
Map
0041 44 276 80 00

Hommage An Sarah Vaughan: «the Divine One» at Moods

When

Thu, December 19, 2024
20:30

Musicians

Zurich Jazz Orchestra
band / ensemble / orchestra
Edward Partyka
composer / conductor

About

Zurich Jazz Orchestra featuring Sandy Patton (voc)

In 2024, we will be celebrating the centenary of the birth of Sarah Vaughan, one of the greatest jazz singers in history. Her career spanned almost five decades. The critic Scott Yanow wrote that she had: "...one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century."
Sarah Vaughan began her career in the early 1940s as a singer in the big bands of Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine, where she also met important jazz innovators such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. In 1954, she began a fruitful artistic partnership with Count Basie that lasted for decades. The last album Sarah Vaughan recorded with the Count Basie Orchestra in 1981 is called "Send In The Clowns", and Sandy Patton has preserved the Count Basie Orchestra's original arrangements, which she has generously shared with the Zurich Jazz Orchestra....

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