Album entitled Sarah Vaughan & Count Basie. The record is released in 1961 by the Roulette Records label.
U.S. singer and pianist Sarah Vaughan in 1942 joined pianist Earl Hines’ band, which featured two figures of the new U.S. jazz movement, saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie
Later, the New Jersey singer joined the lineup of singer Billy Eckstine. Before long, Sarah Vaughan, endowed with an exceptional vocal technique, as virtuosic as the instrumental technique brought to bear by colleagues Parker and Gillespie, became one of the leading exponents of the be-bop scene
In 1954 she recorded with trumpeter Clifford Brown, who died prematurely in 1956 at the age of only twenty-five, one of the most important albums of her career, Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown
In the 1960s he recorded several records for the Roulette Records label-founded by
Morris Levy owner of Birdland, a jazz club in Manhattan (New York)-with, among others, Quincy Jones, Benny Carter and with the orchestra conducted by pianist and composer Count Basie, one of the leading exponents in the 1930s of Kansas City Jazz
First-rate instruments played in Count Basie’s orchestra, including guitarist Freddie Green and trumpeter Thad Jones
The entire material recorded on analog media shared by Michele Zottis was digitized and restored by sound engineers at Saint Louis College of Music in Rome under the supervision of Paolo Marra, curator of the Archives of Jazz in Rome.
