Talk:Sarah Vaughan

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Contents 1 Albums 2 Bisexuality? 3 Singing with Charlie Parker 4 Not a jazz singer as such 5 Personal Life 6 Albums

[edit] Albums

I added all the albums.SmokeyTheFatCat 21:55, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bisexuality?

I have been a Sarah Vaughan fan for about 20 years and have always believed that she enjoyed relations with her own sex despite her four marriages. Many of the great women singers did: Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald etc. However it not occurs to me that I have not a scrap of evidence for this. Google reveals nothing either. SV kept her private life but that she passed could the truth be told? Anybody know anything about this?SmokeyTheFatCat 21:29, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

In my opinion, well-hidden bisexuality would not be considered encyclopedic. Cf with well-hidden heterosexual trysts. For instance, Benny Goodman's rumored affair with Billie Holiday is only marginally encyclopedic, Ella Fitzgerald's rumored affair with Vido Musso (or is it Babe Russin) isn't encyclopedic. --SeanO 23:05, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Um, Maybe because there weren't any?

[edit] Singing with Charlie Parker

Do any recordings exist of these sessions? Anyone know?SmokeyTheFatCat 20:35, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

You might look around in Parker collections [such as this] rather than in Sarah Vaughan collections. Grouse lists her as recording four sides with Gillespie/Parker in 1945 for the long-defunct Guild label: "Lover Man", "What More Can a Woman Do?", "I'd Rather Have a Memory Than a Dream" and "Mean to Me". --Michaelminn 16:00, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Not a jazz singer as such

SV sang pop, bossa nova etc. She hated being called a jazz singer so I have deleted the single word 'jazz' of the opening of the article. Is Wiki going to respect her memory by giving her the title she would have prefered? SmokeyTheCat 09:42, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

These genres can be troubling, Frank Sinatra was a pop singer before rock and roll, now considered a traditional pop singer, yet I have seen his genres described as 'big band' or 'swing'! With Sass, every biography, criticism or online resource refers to her as a 'jazz singer'. She worked with the greatest jazz musicians, scatted, largely perfomed works from the great american soongbook and bossa nova is often described as 'Brazilian jazz'. Wiki is a collaborative project and I think that it owes no ones memory. Ella Fitzgerald lied about her birthdate, so should it have been changed in her article? Gareth E Kegg 12:40, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay, fair enough my friend. SmokeyTheCat 13:01, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Personal Life

Why is there a disputed tag on this in the article? No-one seems to dispute this here.  SmokeyTheCat  •TALK• 18:22, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Albums

The 'Selected Albums' section is now more like a complete discography. Anyone mind if I change the header to say this?  SmokeyTheCat  •TALK• 06:18, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I did that.

Does anyone know of the album mentioned here 'We Three' (with Dinah Washington and John Williams) ? The link takes one to a Patti Smith album! Any information anyone?  SmokeyTheCat  •TALK• 06:24, 12 April 2008 (UTC)