Nancy Harrow

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Nancy Harrow (born October 3, 1930 in New York City ) is an American jazz singer .

Life

Nancy Harrow studied classical piano playing since she was seven years old, but then decided to dance and later jazz singing. She achieved attention in the jazz scene with an album that she recorded on the Candid label in 1960 with musicians such as Kenny Burrell , Buck Clayton , Dickie Wells and Milt Hinton ("Wild Women Don't Have the Blues"). It was produced by its discoverer, Nat Hentoff .

Her Candid album was followed by another for Atlantic (1962), "You Never Know" with John Lewis as musical director, arranger and pianist, as well as Dick Katz , Phil Woods , Jim Hall , Richard Davis and Connie Kay .

Then Harrow left the music business for a long time to devote himself to her family and raise her two sons. During this time she was busy editing a literary magazine American Journal . In 1975 she returned to the jazz scene and recorded a number of albums for the Audiophile, Finesse, Inner City, Tono, Gazell and Soul Note labels with musicians such as Bob Brookmeyer , Roland Hanna , Dick Katz, Clark Terry and again Phil Woods. Harrow is considered a talented swing-based singer. For her album "Lost Lady" she wrote the song material herself, based on a text by Willa Cather . Your album "The Marble Faun" is based on a novella by Nathaniel Hawthorne .

Discographic notes

  • 1960 - Wild Women Don't Have the Blues (Candid)
  • 1963 - You Never Know (Atlantic)
  • 1986 - You're Nearer (Baldwin Street Music) with Bob Brookmeyer, Roland Hanna
  • 1991 - Secrets (Soul Note) with Clark Terry, Dick Katz, Ray Drummond , Ben Riley
  • 1993 - Lost Lady (Soul Note) with Clark Terry, Dick Katz, Phil Woods, Drummond, Riley
  • 1997 - The Marble Faun (Harbinger) with Roland Hanna, John Clark , Frank Wess , Grady Tate
  • 2007 - The Cat Who Went to Heaven (Artists House)

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SURNAME Harrow, Nancy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York