Product Review

Sarah Vaughan - Live at Rosy's is a newly discovered live recording captured in an intimate club setting on May 31, 1978 at Rosy's in New Orleans. Featuring nearly 90 minutes of music from 'the Divine One', Sarah Vaughan backed by her trio of pianist Carl Schroeder, bassist Walter Booker and drummer Jimmy Cobb Live at Rosy's is a collection material originally recorded for the Peabody Award-winning NPR radio program Jazz Alive! with host Dr. Billy Taylor, some of which has never been aired before. Available as a deluxe 2-CD set with a 36-page book including essays by jazz writers James Gavin and Will Friedwald, producer Zev Feldman, club owner Rosalie 'Rosy' Wilson, and pianist Carl Schroeder; interviews with drummer Jimmy Cobb and vocalist Helen Merrill; plus rare and some previously unpublished photos from photographers Herman Leonard, Ray Avery, Chuck Stewart, Riccardo Schwamenthal and Tom Copi.

'When Sarah sang, she might just as well have been a trumpet player playing. Her musical ability, her jazz phrasing . . . it was perfect'. -Helen Merrill

'This band played hundreds of performances around the globe with Sarah Vaughan and in the recordings in this set, these four masters empathy with one another and their consummate cohesiveness as a unit are undeniable.' -Zev Feldman, Live at Rosy's producer