Listening to:
Lullaby Of Birdland
Interesting Facts: After she won an amateur contest at the Apollo
Theater, Sarah Vaughan was
hired into the Earl Hines big band. She was one of the first singers to fully use the be-bop style, and had the
ability to use her voice as well as Charlie Parker used his saxophone. She was also one of the great ‘scat’ singers in jazz.
March 27,
1924 – April 3, 1990
Home
town: Newark, New Jersey
Instrument
Played: Voice
Influenced
by:
By Olivia
Mrs. Johnson, 3rd Grade, February
2007