The fourth of four box sets reissuing every recording
Sarah Vaughan made for the Mercury and EmArcy labels (including many previously unreleased performances) starts off (after four orchestra tracks) with its strongest selections, no less than 32 songs recorded during a live four-day engagement in Copenhagen during which the singer is accompanied by the
Kirk Stuart Trio. Everything else on this six-CD set is somewhat anticlimactic in comparison, for
Vaughan is otherwise hindered a bit by string orchestras, a big band and/or a choir. Better to get the live sessions (released as
Sassy Swings the Tivoli in addition to a Japanese set by the same name that has extra material) instead although lovers of
Vaughan's voice will want to pick up this large reissue anyway. ~ Scott Yanow