

Sarah Vaughan regularly confirmed her career-long versatility by boldly deconstructing the standards. On stage in 1963, she makes frisky business of “All of Me” in under two minutes, while her husky, drawn-out delivery on “Summertime” results in woozy hypnosis. She embraced bossa nova with the same level of savvy engagement, tapping Milton Nascimento and other Brazilian collaborators for the airily contrasting duet “Bridges (Travessia)”.