Sarah Vaughan

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During the 1950s, the post war period in which Europe had to redevelop itself, famous American jazzmusicians discovered Europe and visited the great Temples of Jazz, like the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam or the Kurhaus in Scheveningen in The Netherlands. In 1958 Sarah Vaughan was, like Benny Goodman, invited to play at the American pavilion, now het Amerikaans Theater, at the Brussel's World Fair which included an extensive European tour. In June 1958 she gave a concert at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and was present at an AVRO Tv-programme, recorded in the morning of the 7th of June 1958, at the Bussum's Tv-studios. It was reviewed as an "avond van louter ontspanning" ( = an evening with pure amusement) as part of a "met zorg voorbereid en evenwichtig samengesteld amusementsprogramma". ( = well prepared and composed entertainment programme. The night concert has been released after more then 50 years as one of the treasures in the series Jazz at the Concertgebouw - a series of jazz albums released by the Dutch Jazz Archive.

Sarah Vaughan: Unique live performance at the Concertgebouw - Amsterdam (1958)

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