{"product_id":"sassy-the-life-of-sarah-vaughan","title":"Sassy: The Life Of Sarah Vaughan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A deeply felt portrait of an artist whose influence on a generation of vocalists was profound.\" -- New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Vaughan possessed the most spectacular voice in jazz history. In Sassy , Leslie Gourse, the acclaimed biographer of Nat King Cole and Joe Williams, defines and celebrates Vaughan's vital musical legacy and offers a detailed portrait of the woman as well as the singer. Revealed here is \"The Divine One\" as only her closest friends and musical associates knew her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy her early twenties Sarah Vaughan was singining with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Billy Eckstine, helping them invent bebop. For forty-five years thereafter, she reigned supreme in both pop and jazz, with several million-selling hits (among them \"Broken Hearted Melody,\" \"Make Yourself Comfortable,\" and \"Misty\").\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut life offstage was never smooth for Sarah Vaughan. Her voluptuous voice was matched by her exuberant appetite for excess: three failed marriages, financial difficulties through many changes in management, late-night jam sessions, liquor, and cocaine. In Sassy , though, we also see the feisty and unpretentious woman who worked hard all her life to support her parents and adopted daughter, and who came to savor the hard-won independence and worldwide acclaim she achieved as the greatest jazz singer of her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":53956764041584,"sku":"978-0306805783","price":6.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":53956764074352,"sku":"978-0306805783","price":40.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/51Q-GPa-JZL._SY522.jpg?v=1782743274","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/de\/products\/sassy-the-life-of-sarah-vaughan","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}