Crazy And Mixed Up

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Total Tracks: 8   Total Length: 33:37

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Fred Kaplan

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10.14.09
One of jazz's great singers in the autumn of her years — but not of her voice.
2006 | Label: Fantasy Records

Vaughan was 58 when she recorded this small-group session in 1982, and her voice is in stunningly fine shape. She blows hot and cool, dreamy and sassy, and all the way through she's clearly having a great time. So is her band, which includes Joe Pass on guitar and Roland Hanna on piano. I could have done without her occasional scatting, but she swings through "Autumn Leaves," "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," and a half-dozen other standards with casual brio.

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Sarah is divine and this one proves it!

b4insf

A stunning album. Thank you Sassy for getting behind this effort. It is a benchmark for any serious jazz vocalist

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The finest vocal album ever

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You will never tire of this magnificent performance by Sarah Vaughan and her incredibly swinging quartet featuring Joe Pass and Harold Jones. This may easily be the greatest vocal album ever recorded.

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Sarah is superb

pwright1

Beautiful voice, great band with great songs. Sarah at her best.

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Sarah Vaughan had complete control over the production of this album, Crazy and Mixed Up (which would be her last small-group recording) and, even if the results are not all that unique, her voice is often in near-miraculous form. With fine backup work from pianist Roland Hanna, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Andy Simpkins and drummer Harold Jones, Sassy sounds in prime form, on such songs as “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was,” “Autumn Leaves,” “The Island” and “You Are Too Beautiful.” It is hard to believe, listening to her still-powerful voice on this CD reissue, that she had already been a recording artist for 48 years. – Scott Yanow