Dinah Washington Archives

Jazz at 100 Hour 49: Jazz Singers in the 1950s – Sarah Vaughan, Helen Merrill, Dinah Washington and Abbey Lincoln (1954 – 1962)

Feb 9th, 2018 | By Russell Perry

Tags: Abbey Lincoln, Barney Kessel, Booker Little, Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dinah Washington, Eric Dolphy, Helen Merrill, Max Roach, Oscar Pettiford, Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Vaughan Many jazz singers of the 1950s continued the tradition of recording with major instrumentalists who were given the space to improvise, feeding off the collaboration. In 1954, EmArCy records matched three of their singers, representing the wide range of their offerings – Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Helen Merrill – with jazz ensembles […]

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