Sassy : the life of Sarah Vaughan
Biography of jazz musician Sarah Vaughan from her childhood to rise in the music business
Print Book, English, 1994
1st Da Capo Press ed View all formats and editions
Da Capo Press, New York, 1994
Biographies
xiii, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780306805783, 0306805782
30157101
Introduction
"Let's go pick some dillies"
Portrait of the artiste as a young songbird
Enter George Treadwell
"The bitch is a genius"
What happened to the money?
At the top of the jazz world
A bad marriage
Muddling through the sixties
A new man, a new record contract, a new outlook
The Divine One becomes a concert artist
Contemplating posterity
The Divine One goes to Harvard
Tom Guy Films Listen to the Sun
A letter to Marshall Fisher
A mistake made late in life
Winning an Emmy, a Grammy, and other honors
Send in the clowns
Originally published: New York : C. Scribner's Sons, ©1993