A special tribute to “The Divine One,” legendary jazz singer Sarah Vaughan will take place at Film Forum on Wednesday, Mar. 27.
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jazz critic Will Friedwald, will cover Vaughan’s five-decade career, from her roots in Newark to the height of her international fame. Also featured are some of Vaughan’s equally iconic co-stars, including Billy Eckstine, Tony Bennett, Michel Legrand, and Dizzy Gillespie. “From the moment she won the Apollo Theater amateur contest at age 18, Sarah Vaughan immediately joined the pantheon of great jazz singers,” said Friedwald.
“Likewise, she took the pure power and passion of the great gospel singers and brought it to bear on earthly matters like love and the blues. Hers was a voice that often seemed to be more than merely human, and yet her greatest strength was not the purely rapturous quality of the voice but her down-to-earth nature; not her divinity but her humanity. She was the very spirit of human playfulness, of spontaneous melodic invention, and of effortless swing.
The Sarah Vaughan tribute, produced by Film Forum Repertory Artistic Director Bruce Goldstein, follows sold-out tributes to Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holiday, presented by Friedwald at Film Forum in past years. Amsterdam News is renowned for its reporting of the news of the day from a Black perspective for 113 years.
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