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NANCY WILSON
Syracuse 2003 [no label, 2CD]
Syracuse Jazz Fest. Live at the Onondaga County Community College, Syracuse,New York; June 22, 2003. Very good soundboard.
American jazz singer Nancy Wilson, an award-winning singer whose beguiling expressiveness in jazz, R&B, gospel, soul and pop, made her a crossover recording star for five decades and who also had a prolific career as an actress, activist and commercial spokeswoman. Wilson resisted the label of “jazz singer” for much of her career, although jazz was the form to which she returned time and again and in which she had her greatest critical and popular success. She considered herself above all “a song stylist,” she once told The Washington Post. “That’s my essence,” she said, “to weave words, to be dramatic.”
She sought to meld the seemingly incongruous styles of her two greatest influences: the ethereal Jimmy Scott and the penetrating and sultry Dinah Washington. Wilson’s singing was at once regal and vulnerable, and she inspired two generations of singers, including Patti LaBelle, Anita Baker and Nnenna Freelon. “She has such a classy sound, but she’s never afraid to be a woman, or to tell it like it is,” Freelon once told the San Jose Mercury News.
Jazz historian and critic Will Friedwald, in his volume “A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers,” called Wilson a formidable presence in pop, jazz and blues - “the most important vocalist to come along after these three genres were codified and move freely among them.” She passed away in 2018 at the age of 81. - syracuse.com
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Thanks to taper Terry Sullivan; and to beatkilla for sharing the show at Dime.
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Lineage:
Soundboard > Sony SBM-1 A/D Converter > Sony D-8 DAT
DAT Transfer: Panosonic SV-3700 > SP/DIF > HHB CD-R 850
CD Transfer: CD Optical Drive > Traders Little Helper FLAC Encoding
Location: Inside Soundboard Enclosure
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Disc 1
Track 101. Night in Tunisia 16:30
Track 102. Manteca 16:01
Track 103. Things To Come 7:37
Track 104. Strike Up The Band 3:32
Track 105. More Love 6:38
51 mins
Disc 2
Track 201. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart 4:11
Track 202. I Can’t Make You Love Me 5:49
Track 203. It Don’t Mean a Thing If it Ain’t Got that Swing/Guess Who I Saw Today 10:09
Track 204. All Of Me 5:10
Track 205. You’ll See/My Funny Valentine 8:34
Track 206. False start/Announcements/Day in, Day Out 6:17
41 mins
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