My Most Influential Albums #8
SARAH VAUGHN – MISTY
Album #8 of 12 most Influential albums shaping musical taste. Mine today is Sarah Vaughn’s Misty, I heard it only as a single when I learned about it and its a big part of reason I sing jazz now which is why I didn’t include a full album with it.
Naive me, when I heard it I was simply looking for a recording of a song my music teacher had picked for me to sing for a recital. I remember hearing her and thinking, oh man, she’s fun. So many more phrasing intricacies that I had been used to hearing in other classical singers. I remember thinking, “well if Sarah Vaughn did it and got away with that, then so can I. Ha.” Only to really later she wasn’t a classical singer 🤣. Whoops.
So so much soul in her music. And this particular record was produced by the great Quincy Jones, who has influenced a ton of music that I’ve loved in my adult years. Imagine that I didn’t even know who he was until a few years ago and I’ve been listening to track after track that he’s produced all this time. The song, the voice, the producer. Misty is it.