Sarah Vaughan : Snowbound

Sarah Vaughan : Snowbound

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Sarah Vaughan with orchestra conducted by Don Costa

Roulette 52091

Pure Pleasure Records : LP 180 gram

Brand New and Sealed Record

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A1 - Snowbound
A2 - I Hadn't Anyone 'Til You
A3 - What's Good About Goodbye
A4 - Stella By Starlight
A5 - Look To Your Heart
A6 - Oh You Crazy Moon 
B1 - Blah, Blah, Blah
B2 - I Remember You
B3 - I Fall In Love Too Easily
B4 - Glad To Be Unhappy
B5 - Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most

Recorded in July 1962 in New York City.

Sarah Lois Vaughan (1924 – 1990), nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine", was a four-time Grammy Award winner, including a "Lifetime Achievement Award". The National Endowment for the Arts bestowed upon her its "highest honor in jazz", the NEA Jazz Masters Award, in 1989.

Studying the piano from an early age, Sarah Vaughan became an organist and choir soloist at the Mount Zion Baptist Church as a pre-teen. At the age of eighteen, she entered the famed Amateur Contest at Harlem’s Apollo Theater. Her rendition of the jazz standard "Body and Soul" won her first prize. Billy Eckstine was in the audience that night; six months later, she had joined him in Earl Hines’s big band, and sang alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, as well as being the band's second pianist.

Wrapped in the soothing strings of arranger Don Costa, Sarah Vaughan recorded an unsurprisingly dreamy ballads collection titled Snowbound. Despite the peaceful atmosphere and strolling tempo, Vaughan hardly treats the material as a cinch for her voice; all of these 11 songs find her searching for different ways to present time-worn standards. Snowbound is an overlooked gem from Sarah Vaughan's Roulette years.

The "golden age" of recordings was from 1955 to 1965, at the beginning of the LP and the stereo era, where pure vacuum tube amplification helped produce recordings demonstrating unparalleled fidelity and warmth, lifelike presence and illumination.

This Pure Pleasure LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the original analogue studio tapes through to the cutting head and was pressed with virgin vinyl at Pallas.