It's somehow fitting that a biography of Sarah Vaughan would emerge during the centennial of Ella Fitzgerald. That's been Vaughan's story from the get go. The brilliance of her instrument was ...

A skinny 17-year-old kid without much looks, "she wrecked the house that night," singer and bandleader Billy Eckstine later recalled. Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan ...