Nancy Wilson is a top-notch jazz vocalist who has also recorded blues, disco, R&B, pop, and soul songs. often crossing over to the R&B and rock charts.
High Contrast is considered to be one of Gabor Szabo’s best collaboration albums, with Bobby Womack writing four of the seven songs.
The album Lower Basin Street originated with an NBC radio program that was a send-up of highbrow symphonic programs in that time period.
Just four songs are included on Gula Matari, but all of them are wonderful, including “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, with vocals by Valerie Simpson.
Jonah Jones is a jazz trumpeter who started out playing on a Mississippi riverboat in the 1920’s and had a long career in jazz in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
The Blues is Pete Fountain’s seventh album and deserves its declaratory title by featuring four classics written by W. C. Handy, “The Father of the Blues”.
Circus Time with the Dukes of Dixieland is one of a dozen albums released in the space of four years by the prolific Dukes of Dixieland.