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• This 1954 studio date, a self-titled album recorded for Emarcy, was later re-released as Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown to mark the involvement of one of the top trumpeters of the time. Vaughan sings nine intimate standards with a band that includes Brown on trumpet, Herbie Mann on flute and Paul Quinichette on tenor, each of which has plenty of room for solos (most songs are close to the five-minute mark). In these recordings Sarah Vaughan is probably in the best vocal form of her career. She pauses and lingers at notes to the standards “April in Paris”, “Jim” and “Lullaby of Birdland”. As poignant as Vaughan is, Brown is almost equal to her in his solos on “Lullaby of Birdland”, “Jim” and “September Song”, showing his incredible bop virtuosity in a restrained setting, without sacrificing the simple feeling of his notes or the ex