(self-titled) LP

Recorded in New York in December 1954, this self-titled set pairs singer Sarah Vaughan with trumpeter Clifford Brown and a combo rounded out by Herbie Mann, Paul Quinichette, and Roy Haynes. It is one of the era's defining vocal jazz pairings, built on ballads and medium-tempo standards, though Brown died in a car accident less than two years later, at 25.