Looked like someone was cleaning out their Nancy Wilson collection at Value Village -- several of her albums were available.
I should probably make clear this is NOT Heart's Nancy Wilson, but I'm sure a quick glance at the album cover made that obvious. This Nancy Wilson had a career as a jazz/pop singer, though I'm afraid I'm not the least bit familiar with her. And I'm not even sure why I spent the $2.99 for this disc; somewhere in the dusty reaches of my brain, I must have recognized it from somewhere.
But praise be to the gods of first impressions, because this is a fine album. Nancy sounds a bit like Dinah Washington, with a tartness to her vocal delivery. Cannonball is great as always, and actually the bulk of the album is Cannonball and his band without Nancy Wilson. One of the delights of this album for me is the "traditional" piano style of Joe Zawinul, he of Weather Report fame. I knew his classic performance with Cannonball, the amazingly concise "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", but to hear him here sans Weather Report-era synthesizers is a revelation. Gives me a more complete picture, I guess.
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