The eighteenth album: #18 Sarah Vaughan - At Mister Kelly's
There's something exciting about this album. As a live jazz album, it has a lot more energy than a studio album, but that's also something that shows through in Sarah Vaughan's performance. It's excited and happy, and infusing something optimistic in more melancholic songs. The looseness of the performance comes through as well (the introduction says that her having lyric sheets is because they're recording the album), especially when she gets ahead of the song on WIllow Weep For Me, improvising some lyrics to fill time. It's different, and adds a more human touch. Beyond that, the songs also sound really good, polished and well rehearsed. It's a relaxing comfortableness, one that doesn't let them sink away like other jazz songs have done, but instead keep you going.