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Nancy King: Overdue Accolades
by Suzanne Lorge
Before her October 23, 2004 gig at the Jazz Standard, singer Nancy King hadn't played a major New York club in several years. She's never been signed to a major jazz label, although she's come close. By 2004 King had been touring regionally and internationally for four decades and jazz insiders knew who she was, even ...
Live At Jazz Standard
By Nancy King
Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 2006
Track listing: There's A Small Hotel; I Fall In Love Too Easily; Little Suede Shoes/Day By Day; Everything
Happens To Me; Ain't Misbehavin'; Useless Landscape (Inutil Paisagem); There Will Never Be
Another You; Autumn In New York; Four.
Nancy King at Jazz Standard with Fred Hersch
by Andrew Velez
Nancy King with Fred Hersch Jazz Standard New York, NY May 9, 2006 A definite anticipatory buzz was in the air around Nancy King and Fred Hersch at Jazz Standard last month. It was much like the happy sound a Broadway audience makes upon arriving for the performance of a ...
Nancy King: Live at Jazz Standard
by Jim Santella
Nancy King's duo performance with pianist Fred Hersch on Live at Jazz Standard allows her to share emotional warmth--which she's portrayed naturally throughout a career that spans over forty years--with her audience in an intimate setting. King's personal interpretations of standards and other popular songs have always worked well in the duo format. Her recorded collaborations ...
Nancy King with Fred Hersch: Live At Jazz Standard
by C. Michael Bailey
Nancy King is a jazz vocalist who swings for the fences. An all-out scat master, King possesses all of the elasticity of Betty Carter and all of the panache and control of Ella Fitzgerald. Fred Hersch is a pianist's pianist, the finest ballad-oriented player to emerge from the long shadow of Bill Evans. It's a bit ...
Carla Cook: Just a Swingin' and a Groovin'
by Mathew Bahl
On the question of categories, Carla Cook will say this much: “I'm definitely a jazz singer in that I like to improvise and I like to swing." Beyond that, the subject doesn't interest her. “I don't spend a lot of time haggling with the word “jazz,?" she explains. “I let the “Jazz Police" handle that. I ...
Moon Ray
By Nancy King
Label:
Released: 2000
Track listing: Moon Ray; Yesterdays; Twisted; Everything Happens to Me; How High the Moon; Quiet Nights; St. Thomas; Scrapple from Apple; Useless Landscape*
Dream Lands
By Nancy King
Label: Stellar Sound
Released: 2000
Track listing: Talk to Me; From Me to You; Picnic/Moonglow; A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening; Like Someone in Love; You Say You Care; Lazy Afternoon; Crooked Road; Blue Station; When the Wind Was Green; Tomorrow's Another Day
Nancy King: Moon Ray
by Dave Nathan
With the passing of Betty Carter, a case can be made that the mantle as preeminent bop and post bop vocalist should be draped across the shoulders of Portland, Oregon denizen, Nancy King. And if there were any lingering doubts about her potential beatification, her performance on this album should eliminate them entirely. For more than ...
Nancy King and Steve Christofferson: Dream Lands
by Dave Nathan
On Dream Lands, Nancy King continues her journey through American popular music, exploring not only classic standards, but other bits and pieces that have been hidden away in the nooks and crannies of the caverns of jazz vocal music. Previous journeys found her accompanied by guitarist Glen Moore. This time her traveling companion is pianist Steve ...
