[Dixielandjazz] Sarah Vaughan in an unique 1958 concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam

[Hans en Corrie]

During the 1950s, the post war period in which Europe had to redevelop
itself, famous American jazz musicians discovered Europe and visited the
great Temples of Jazz, like the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam or the Kurhaus in
Scheveningen in The Netherlands. In 1958 Sarah Vaughan was, like Benny
Goodman, invited to play at the American pavilion, now het Amerikaans
Theater, at the Brussel's World Fair which included an extensive European
tour. In June 1958 she gave a concert at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and was
present at an AVRO Tv-programme, recorded in the morning of the 7th of June
1958, at the Bussum's Tv-studios. It was reviewed as an "avond van louter
ontspanning" ( = an evening with pure amusement) as part of a "met zorg
voorbereid en evenwichtig samengesteld amusementsprogramma". ( = well
prepared and composed entertainment programme. The night concert has been
released after more then 50 years as one of the treasures in the series Jazz
at the Concertgebouw - a series of jazz albums released by the Dutch Jazz
Archive. Keep Swinging was too young to be in the audience himself, but
listened with his 2011-ears and learned that this must have been an
impressive evening: http://keepswinging.blogspot.com
<http://keepswinging.blogspot.com/> 

 

 

Hans