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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Da Capo Pr
Publication date
August 21, 1994
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780306805783
ISBN-10
0306805782
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.05 lbs.
Original list price
$16.00
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Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Sarah Vaughan possessed the most spectacular voice in jazz history. In Sassy, Leslie Gourse, the acclaimed biographer of Nat King Cole and Joe Williams, defines and celebrates Vaughanâs vital musical legacy and offers a detailed portrait of the woman as well as the singer. Revealed here is âThe Divine Oneâ as only her closest friends and musical associates knew her. By her early twenties Sarah Vaughan was singining with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Billy Eckstine, helping them invent bebop. For forty-five years thereafter, she reigned supreme in both pop and jazz, with several million-selling hits (among them âBroken Hearted Melody,â âMake Yourself Comfortable,â and âMistyâ).But life offstage was never smooth for Sarah Vaughan. Her voluptuous voice was matched by her exuberant appetite for excess: three failed marriages, financial difficulties through many changes in management, late-night jam sessions, liquor, and cocaine. In Sassy, though, we also see the feisty and unpretentious woman who worked hard all her life to support her parents and adopted daughter, and who came to savor the hard-won independence and worldwide acclaim she achieved as the greatest jazz singer of her generation.
Editions
Hardcover
from Scribner (November 1, 1992)
9780684193175 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $25.00
About: The first biography of a seminal jazz vocalist recounts her stellar career, which included million-selling hits in the fifties and sixties and collaboration with many jazz greats, and discusses her private life, five marriages, and expensive lifestyle
About: The first biography of a seminal jazz vocalist recounts her stellar career, which included million-selling hits in the fifties and sixties and collaboration with many jazz greats, and discusses her private life, five marriages, and expensive lifestyle
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Da Capo Pr (August 21, 1994)
9780306805783 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $16.00
About: Sarah Vaughan possessed the most spectacular voice in jazz history.
About: Sarah Vaughan possessed the most spectacular voice in jazz history.
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