The Divine One

Today is Sarah Vaughan's birthday. Could she ever wring emotion out of a song. One could say she performed songs rather than sang them. Her palate was a three-octave range. Her technique, a symphony of sound. Here she is late in her career performing her early signature song.



The Divine One performed for almost fifty years and, nineteen years after her death in 1990, we still wait for a singer who can approach her amazing voice. The decline of professional songwriting and popular music in general have contributed to the void. And where is jazz, a genre birthed in the United States, but cast aside for mass market mediocrity and worse. I wait eagerly for a paradigm shift in music.