Nancy Wilson - Greatest Hits [Sony]

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Two tracks from Nancy Wilson's early Capitol Records years outclass everything else on this compilation, which otherwise concentrates on the jazz/pop/lite-R&B singer's '80s and '90s work for Columbia. On the two torchy Capitol tracks, "Guess Who I Saw Today" and "Save Your Love for Me" (the latter from Wilson's 1962 collaboration with Cannonball Adderley), she blends strong, bluesy chops with bittersweet sentiments. The more recent stuff is hardly as straightforward; most of the time, her vocals are swamped by ricky-tick adult-contemporary production that renders the music fit only for smooth-jazz radio. And when Wilson does slip into a stripped-down trio format with the likes of Brad Mehldau and Christian McBride on Stephen Sondheim's "Loving You," she still has to contend with bland duet partner Peabo Bryson. Greatest Hits serves mainly to point out the fact that Nancy Wilson best uses her voice these days as host of public radio's Jazz Profiles. --Rickey Wright

Product Description

ALL of her Columbia hits on one CD (a first!) and a previously unreleased "after hours mix" of I Can't Make You Love Me . Includes Don't Ask My Neighbors; Do You Still Dream About Me; Love Won't Let Me Wait , and many Capitol tracks, with guests ranging from Ramsey Lewis to Cannonball Adderley!, ISBN13: B00000J28Z ISBN10: B00000J28Z Material Type: audioCD