Gard Nilssen performs with his Accoustic Unity ensemble during the 2019 jazzahead! conference in Bremen, Germany.
(Photo: Jens Schlenker)Apr 8, 2020 9:00 AM
More than a few bands in the past have featured two drummers: The J.B.’s, The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band and The Melvins, among others. Ornette Coleman’s Free…
Sarah Vaughan (1924–1990)
(Photo: Nationaal Archief, The Hague)Mar 27, 2020 2:35 PM
Complexes of one sort or another are often by-products of greatness.
As Sarah Vaughan recalls it, her life began with a devastating, unutterable resentment of being dark skinned and unattractive.
“I often wished I was a medium-brown skin color,” she once said. “I imagined people that color were regarded more highly than I. To most persons who knew me, I thought, I was just another little black girl for whom the future was just as dark as it was for thousands of others like me.”
As a child, Vaughan remembers, she had dreams of being…
