After Hours (NRC 'Best of Blue Note' Book Edition) (1961)

Bijzondere editie, met een 48 pagina's dik Nederlandstalig biografisch boek over de zangeres, met prachtige foto's. "From 1961-1962, Vaughan recorded two albums while accompanied by just guitar and bass. Her 1962 outing for the obscure Reactivation label remains out of print, but her earlier set with guitarist Mundell Lowe and bassist George Duvivier was finally reissued in 1997, along with one previously unreleased selection ("Through the Years") taken from a slightly earlier exploratory session with the same players. Surprisingly, Lowe only has one solo, so the emphasis throughout is exclusively on Sassy's magnificent voice. The program mostly sticks to ballads, with a couple of exceptions (most notably "Great Day"), and is a quiet and intimate affair, with Vaughan more subtle than she sometimes was. Despite a lightweight version of "My Favorite Things" that will not remind listeners of John Coltrane, this is an excellent set with some fine jazz singing." (Scott Yanow, Allmusic)