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NY Times Book Review:
A New Biography Looks at Sarah Vaughan, the Singer Known as Sassy

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by JAMES GAVIN QUEEN OF BEBOP The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan By Elaine M. Hayes Illustrated. 419 pp. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. $27.99. For Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singing was a way to wallow in joy; Billie Holiday used it to confront her grief. And to Sarah Vaughan, it was a nirvana where everything was possible and nothing went wrong. Read the entire review here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/books/review/queen-of-bebop-sarah-vaughan-biography-elaine-m-hayes-.html?smid=tw-nytbooks&smtyp=cur New York Times photo