Jazz for aficionados
I think Rok would like this too. One more from the same album as before. These arrangements kill me. Simply masterful and masterfully played. Inventiveness, great feel, gorgeous and soulful singing. That’s when whatever the genre is becomes irrelevant. Check out the very ending of the song and what the orchestrator had the players do. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LkfYNeQBHaE |
This is the only Nancy Wilson album I'm familiar with, not bad to include Cannonball. In spite of her talents it didn't seem to me she had the popularity she deserved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTFEtPXxo0k Now for favorites, this rates high on my list. Some will consider it a transition to jazz from pops/blues, but again, does that matter? It's one of my most played female vocal albums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0qVdEZKFcc |
I would say that Nancy Wilson was less popular than singers like Sarah Vaughn among the jazz crowd. I don’t know, but I’m not too sure total record sales would support that idea across all the genres that she covered. Nancy Wilson recorded more solo records than Vaughn and during the ‘60s alone had nine top 100 hits including a couple of top 20 in the pop/r&b charts. Extremely flexible singer who was clearly a jazz singer in the true sense of the world, but could also sound great singing a torch song or a pop/r&b ballad. Singers like Ella and Sarah who were arguably standard setters as jazz singers simply didn’t sound as “in their element” outside their comfort zone. Ella singing the Beatles songbook is mostly great because she’s Ella, but a little strange to my ears. One more: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HnxyIMTwqIM |
