Today is the 99th anniversary of Sarah Vaughan's birth—March 27, 1924. She was the first major post-war female vocalist shaped by the bebop movement of the mid-1940s, not the swing era of the 1930s and early 1940s. And her stylistic phrasing probably had a greater influence on female vocalists who followed her than any other singer. She also left behind…
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