This is FRESH AIR. Jazz and pop and classical singer Sarah Vaughan was born 100 years ago today in Newark, N.J. As a girl, she sang in church in Newark before breaking into show business at New ...

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) today announced the opening of the 14th annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. The search is on for the next great jazz singer! Solo ...

The competition recalls the humble beginnings of legendary jazz singer/NEA Jazz Master Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990) who, back in 1942, was a Newark teenager and winner of an amateur singing contest ...

Opera singers, jazz vocalists ... in the colors of her voice and the story she tells. This is Sarah Vaughan in full bloom as a singer and as a woman. Back in the ’80s, my favorite selection ...

Renowned Broadway and television actress and singer Melba Moore shared ... ending to a luminous evening honoring a jazz legend, the late Sarah Vaughan. It was evident that Vaughan’s influence ...