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

Harry Callaghan meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 06:34:07 PST 2011


Hans:

Thank you very much

While "Over the Rainbow" and "September in the Rain" were excellent, I don't
think anyone could beat "Sassy" when she sang "Poor Butterfly" or "Send In
the Clowns"

Tides
HC

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Hans en Corrie <koerthchkz at zeelandnet.nl>wrote:

> 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/>
>
>
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>
>
> Hans
>
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