Sarah Vaughan had the sort of voice that compels you to listen. Consider how rare that is. We listen to music while driving, cooking or cleaning. We use it as motivation to exercise and background to ...

The music of Sarah Vaughan has not worn as well as the work of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday or Carmen McRae — the three other modern jazz vocal giants. So it’s unsurprising that Elaine M. Hayes’ ...

She began studying music when she was seven, taking eight years of piano lessons and two years of organ. As a child she sang in the choir at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Newark and played piano and ...