Nancy Wilson

   
Artist: Nancy Wilson

   Genre(s): 
Vocal
   Other
   R&B: Soul
   Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 Music for Lovers

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


   
 Elisabethtown Ost Jazz

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13


   
 Greatest Hits

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 1


   
 Ballads Blues and Big Bands (Disc 3)

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 20


   
 Ballads Blues and Big Bands (Disc 2)

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 20


   
 Ballads Blues and Big Bands (Disc 1)

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 20


   
 Keep You Satisfied

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 10


   
 Rare Songs Very Persona

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


   
 But Beautiful

   Year:    
Tracks: 10

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Diva Nancy Wilson was among modern-day music's nigh fashionable and sultry vocalists; patch often crossing over into the pop and R&B markets -- and regular hosting her have telecasting smorgasbord plan -- she remained charles Herbert Best known as a nothingness performer, famed for her put to work aboard figures including Cannonball Adderley and George Shearing. Born February 20, 1937, in Chillicothe, OH, Wilson first attracted posting playing the ball club circuit in nearby Columbus; she apace earned a ontogenesis reputation among jazz players and fans, and she was recording regularly by the later '50s, finally signing to Capitol and issue LPs including 1959's Like in Love and Nancy Wilson with Billy May's Orchestra. Her dates with Shearing, including 1960's The Swingin's Mutual, solidified her standing as a gift on the rise, and her subsequent work with Adderley -- arguably her finest recordings -- further cemented her ontogenesis fame and reputation.


In the days to follow, however, Wilson ofttimes affected forth from idle words, practically to the mortification of purists; she made legion albums, many of them properly categorised as pop and R&B outings, and toured extensively, appearing with everyone from Nat King Cole and Sarah Vaughan to Ruth Brown and LaVern Baker. She regular hosted her have Emmy-winning variety series for NBC, The Nancy Wilson Show, and was a haunt client performing artist on early programs; hits of the time period included "Assure Me the Truth," "How Glad I Am," "Peace of Mind," and "Forthwith, I'm a Woman." Regardless of how far afield she travelled, Wilson always retained her connections to the malarkey reality, and in the 1980s, she returned to the music with a payback, working intimately with performers including Hank Jones, Art Farmer, Ramsey Lewis, and Benny Golson. By the nineties, she was a favorite among the "new grownup contemporary" mart, her expressive style ideally suited to the format's penchant for succulent, amorous ballads; she too hosted the Jazz Profiles series on National Public Radio.


In the early 2000s, Wilson recorded deuce albums with Ramsey Lewis for Narada (2002's Meant to Be and 2003's Simple Pleasures). Her 2004 album R.S.V.P. (Rarified Songs, Very Personal) was a portmanteau word of straight-ahead malarky and ballads, similar to her next record, 2006's Turned to Blue, which, like R.S.V.P., used a dissimilar player for each lead. In 2005, Capitol released a three-part series to pay testimonial to Wilson's contributions to music in the '50s and '60s: Guess Who I Saw Today: Nancy Wilson Sings Songs of Lost Love, Save Your Love for Me: Nancy Wilson Sings the Great Blues Ballads, and The Great American Songbook.





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