Recorded between January 1949 and January 1953, this compilation of fourteen romantic ballads by one of the word's greatest interpreters moves nice and slow. With the lush sounds of a full orchestra ...

The Nearness of You; Just Friends; Thinking of You; Come Rain or Come Shine; You're Mine, You; Street of Dreams; East of the Sun (and West of the Moon); Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year; Black ...

Born in 1924 in Newark, N.J., Vaughan came up in the '40s, alongside bebop, a new jazz style she instantly took to. In the following decades, she proved to be one of the best singers of any genre.

Generations later, artists are still moved by the smoky contralto tone of Sarah Vaughan that earned her the nickname, “the Divine One.” And now anyone who still receives mail can also experience her ...

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 ...