South Orange Couple Honors Jazz Legend at SOPAC
The Sounds Of Sarah Vaughan will revisit the legendary singer's music in a very special performance by local pros at SOPAC.
A South Orange couple, comprised of a Broadway actress/singer and a Grammy-winning trombonist, are putting on a concert tribute to one of jazz’s greatest voices on Friday at the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC). Jason Jackson and Rosena M. Hill have too many career highlights to mention, save to say they are a talented duo who have assembled their best seven-piece ensemble for the program that will celebrate the life and career of the legendary Sarah Vaughan, a Newark native and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award recipient. “She had one of the greatest voices of our time,” Hill told Patch in an interview. “She was a part of the beginning of the bebop era. She was fearless… They called her ‘The Divine One’; it …
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