Tag: bossa nova
Ann Hampton Callaway: The Sarah Vaughan Project
Callaway has the tone and timbre of the later Vaughan style, the sensitive attention to lyric and the emotional showmanship to carry it off spectacularly.
Faith Prince
Musical comedy is a revered genre in both cabaret and Broadway, and Faith Prince is one of its finest practitioners.
Lynn Henderson: If We Only Have Love
If We Only Have Love improves on successive hearings, but well worth buying just for “One Note Samba.”
Diane Schuur
I have seen Schuur a number of times, but have never heard her in better voice than in her current stay at Birdland.
La Tanya Hall: To Sarah with Love: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Sarah Vaughan
La-Tanya-Hall-Sarah-Vaughan-Cabaret-Scenes-Magazine_212It takes a special voice to do justice to Sarah Vaughan, who I rate as one of the five greatest female vocalists of all time. La Tanya Hall has such a voice.
