Multi-award-winning singer-songwriter and leading UK jazz
vocalist Zara McFarlane releases Sweet Whispers - Celebrating
Sarah Vaughan. The album honours the jazz great who inspired
her on her own artistic journey and whose centenary year is
marked in 2024. "Sweet Whispers" is more than a run-through
of some of Vaughan"s most popular songs. It"s not hard to
imagine the immense task in selecting those songs, after all,
Vaughan"s recording career spanned 50 years notching up
almost 60 albums (plus nearly 30 again in compilations and box
sets). Through a thoughtfully chosen selection of songs, formed
across months in collaboration with producer, and the album"s
clarinettist and saxman, Giacomo Smith - Zara journeys through
the musical life of Sarah Vaughan, from her first to last
recording, bringing to life and breathing new life into some of
her best and less familiar songs. But importantly, the songs that
mean the most to Zara.
TRACKLIST
1.1 Tenderly
1.2 Mean To Me
1.3 Inner City Blues
1.4 September Song
1.5 Great Day
1.6 If You Could See Me Now
1.7 Interlude
1.8 Obsession
1.9 The Mystery of Man
1.10 Stardust
1.11 Sweet Whispers