Sarah Vaughan (1)Critiques

1 The Mystery Of Man 4:08
2 The Mystery Of Man (Instrumental) 0:48
3 The Actor 3:56
4 The Mystery Of Man (Instrumental) 1:09
5 Girl Disappointed In Love 4:24
6 The Mystery Of Man (Instrumental) 1:09
7 The Madeleine 2:10
8 The Mystery Of Man (Chorus & Instrumental) 3:15
9 The Black Soloist – Bernard Ighner 2:58
10 The Mystery Of Man (Instrumental) 0:48
11 The Children 4:27
12 Let It Live (Instrumental) 1:01
13 The Armaments Worker 5:14
14 Toward The Light (Instrumental) 0:34
15 Let It Live 3:28
Credits:
Adapted By – Gene Lees
Arranged By, Piano – Francy Boland
Bass – Chris Lawrence*, Jimmy Woode
Chorus – Cary Wilson, Joan Baxter (2), John Evans (9), Ken Barrie, Lee Gibson, Norma Winstone
Concept By, Producer – Gigi Campi
Conductor – Lalo Schifrin
Drums – Edmund Thigpen*
Executive Producer – Janet Westcott Lees
French Horn – Andrea Joy, Hubert Stale, Ludwig Raft, Thomas Baumgärtel
Music By – Francy Boland (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 14), Lalo Schifrin (tracks: 12, 15), Sante Palumbo (tracks: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13), Tito Fontana (tracks: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13)
Percussion – Hans-Joachim Schacht, Sadi
Piano – Bobby Scott
Saxophone – Ferdinand Povel, Gianni Basso, Sahib Shihab, Sal Nistico, Tony Coe
Strings – Albert Juny, Andrea Heuschke, Andreas Grote, Annette Read, Bernhard Holker, Bruno Klepper, Burkart Heuschke, Christoph Bujanowski, George Lindemann, Gudman Pasz, Hans Buttner, Heins Pens, Ines Pasz, Ismene Then-Bergh, Jerzy Szopinski, Joachim Krist, Jurgan Kachel, Kurt Collinet, Ludwig Rast, Maria Jelmer, Michael Kurkowski, Mischa Salevic, Rainer Paltte, Siegfried Thuning, Silvia Menn, Uwe Schmeisser
Trombone – Bart Van Lier, Erik Van Lier, Henning Berg (2), Jiggs Whigham, Otto Bredl
Trumpet – Art Farmer, Benny Bailey, Idrees Sulieman, Klaus Osterloh, Rick Kiefer, Rolf Ericson
Vocals – Sarah Vaughan
Woodwind – Andreas Bossler, Bernd Holz, Claus Boden, Harald Rodde, Janel Radonici, Karin Levin, Markus Strohmeyer, Michel Riessler
Words By – Karol Wojtyła (tracks: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13)

Vaughan sings with a jazz combo, featuring Clifford Brown.

3/4 (Good).

Her voice is beautiful, but the creative decisions don't make much sense to me. I could do without the scat-style stuff entirely, and all of these tracks have a lot of tedious padding.½

INFORMATION-This album contains the following tracks:
A1 You're Mine You
A2 The Nearness Of You
A3 You're Not The Kind
A4 These Things I Offer You
A5 Perdido
B1 East Of The Sun
B2 What More Can A Woman Do
B3 No Smoke Blues
B4 I'd Rather Have A Memory Than A Dream
B5 Mean To Me

INFORMATION-This album contains the following tracks:
1 I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler), featuring Count Basie Orchestra, 4:58
2 Lush Life (Billy Strayhorn), 4:27
3 Dindi (Ray Gilbert / Antonio Carlos Jobim), 5:29
4 From This Moment On (Cole Porter), featuring Count Basie Orchestra, 2:32
5 You're Blasé (Ord Hamilton / Bruce Siever), 5:05
6 I've Got the World on a String (Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler), 5:33
7 Ill Wind (Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler), featuring Count Basie Orchestra, 3:58
8 All Too Soon (Duke Ellington / Carl Sigman), 3:44
9 In a Sentimental Mood (Duke Ellington / Manny Kurtz / Irving Mills), 4:21
10 Midnight Sun (Sonny Burke / Lionel Hampton / Johnny Mercer), 4:36

Recorded 1978-1981

INFORMATION-This album contains the following tracks:
1 September Song (Maxwell Anderson / Kurt Weill), 3:01
2 Time After Time (Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne), 3:01
3 Lover Man (Jimmy Davis / Roger "Ram" Ramirez / Jimmy Sherman), 3:21
4 What a Diff'rence a Day Makes (Stanley Adams / María Mendez Grever), 2:47
5 Love Me or Leave Me (Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn), 2:55
6 Don't Worry 'Bout Me (Rube Bloom / Ted Koehler), 2:51
7 Motherless Child (Traditional), 2:44
8 Gentleman Friend (Arnold B. Horwitt / Richard Lewine), 2:32
9 Tenderly (Walter Gross / Jack Lawrence), 3:06
10 The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) (Isham Jones / Gus Kahn), 3:11
11 A Hundred Years from Today (Ned Washington / Joseph Young), 2:56
12 Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone) (Val Burton / Will Jason), 3:08
13 Everything I Have Is Yours (Harold Adamson / Burton Lane), 2:38
14 I Feel So Smoochie (Phil Moore), 2:38
15 It's Magic (Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne), 3:13
16 It's You or No One (Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne), 3:11

1. I've got the world on a string- Arlen/Koehler
2. Midnight Sun- Burke, Hampton, Mercer
3. How long has this been going on?- Gersgwin
4. You're Blase- Ord/ Sievier
5. Easy Living- Robin/ Rainger
6. More Than you know- Youmans/Rose/Elison
7. My old flame- Johnston, Coslow
8. Teach me tonight
9. Body and soul- Green, Heyman
10. When your lover has gone