Nancy Harrow

Nancy Harrow: The Marble Faun-Jazz Variations on a Theme by Hawthorne

by Dave Nathan
February 1, 2001

Nancy Harrow has been on the jazz scene for more than 30 years as a vocalist earning the devotion of a dedicated following of fans and enormous respect among jazz musicians. But she is also a talented composer and librettist having created song cycles from such classics as Willa Cather's Lost Lady and Waldemar Bronsels' The Adventures of Maya the Bee. Here she wields her magic pen creating a musical passion play from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun. Hawthorne's tale ...

Album Review

Nancy Harrow: You're Nearer

by Dave Nathan
July 1, 2000

Nancy Harrow cut her first album in 1960 with the Buck Clayton All Stars. Since then she has made just ten albums and this reissue of a 1986 recording originally on a Tono CD is one of them. As further evidence of lack of recognition, she gets just a footnote in Crowther and Pinfold's Singing Jazz-Jazz Singers and their Songs and no mention at all in Will Friedwald's Jazz SingingThe good news is that Baldwin Street Music, under the direction ...

Video / DVD

Nancy Harrow: Second Thoughts (2024)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 7, 2025

Like vocalist Carol Sloane, Nancy Harrow came up just as the music world flipped upside down. Jazz was out, rock and soul were in and that was that. But like Carol, Nancy powered forward. In the early 1960s and again beginning in the late 1970s, Nancy recorded 16 albums with Buck Clayton, Dick Katz, Jim Hall, John Lewis, Phil Woods, Connie Kay, Gary McFarland, Frank Wess, Bob Brookmeyer, Roland Hanna and Clark Terry. Throughout this period, Nancy explored songs with ...
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Interview

Interview: Nancy Harrow

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
May 12, 2015

Vocalist Nancy Harrow may not be a household name, but in the early 1960s she recorded with some of the best jazz musicians in the business. The list included Dick Katz, Jim Hall, John Lewis, Phil Woods, Connie Kay and Gary McFarland. Modeling her vocal style of her favorite singer, Billie Holiday, Nancy specialized in a pre-war blues sound that faded soon after the rise of Songbook singers in the LP era of the 1950s. In all, Nancy has recorded ...
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Event

Culture Project Presents the Cat Who Went to Heaven, Captivating Jazz Puppet Show at the Harlem School of the Arts with Music and Lyrics by Nancy Harrow

Source: Two Sheps That Pass
May 5, 2009

Based On The Newbery Award-Winning Book By Elizabeth Coatsworth Directed By Will Pomerantz Six Special Performances Begin Wednesday, May 13, 2009 (suggested donation $10) New York, NY — Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director), who brought to the stage the successful, seven season run of the children’s show Maya the Bee, has announced a special, six-performance run of the acclaimed children’s jazz puppet show The Cat Who Went to Heaven at The Harlem School of the Arts Theater (647 St. ...
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Recording