Song:Lover Man
Album:Interlude 1944-1947
Here is a recording from the early days of bebop featuring two jazz legends before they became famous. Sarah Vaughan met Dizzy Gillespie when Billy Eckstine brought her into the Earl Hines band in 1943. Hines always claimed that he discovered Sarah. But it is believed that Eckstine heard her sing in a New York club. Eckstine left the Hines band and took Gillespie and Charlie Parker with him. The Eckstine band would turn out to be a bebop incubator and just about every musician who would become famous went through that band. Then Sarah joined the Eckstine band in 1944. Her first recordings were with Eckstine. Sarah left to go solo late in 1944. And then Gillespie left to go solo. All the musicians hung around The Braddock Grill next door to The Apollo. Gillespie had a recording session coming up for Guild Records. The band was Charlie Parker on alto sax, Al Haig on piano, Curly Russell on bass and Sid Catlett on drums. Sarah sang on Lover Man, a song written for Billie Holiday. Gillespie was so pleased with Sarah's performance he brought her back to record with a larger band. You can get all these recordings on this budget CD from Naxos Jazz Legends. It also has recordings Sarah made with other bands like John Kirby, Teddy Wilson and others. There is one recording on this CD with trumpeter George Treadwell and he became Sarah's manager. He got her a contract with Columbia in 1949 and from there Sarah became one of the biggest stars of the 50s. But it all started with this recording of Lover Man with Dizzy Gillespie. Here's Sarah Vaughan with Dizzy Gillespie performing Lover Man on Dizzy Gillespie's Bebop Reunion 1976.
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