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Despite hosting a popular TV variety series, Ohio native and vocal diva Nancy Wilson's legacy stands with one foot planted firmly in jazz and the other tapping back and forth between pop and R&B. Beginning in the late '50s, Wilson came of age as a jazz singer but soon stepped out, demonstrating an elastic penchant for genre-hopping that lost her the attention of many jazz purists but clinched her lasting popularity. Her collaborative highlights alone speak volumes: George Shearing, Cannonball Adderley, Billy May, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole, LaVern Baker, Ruth Brown and Ramsey Lewis among others. She continued recording into the new millennium, releasing almost yearly recordings, bringing her total number of releases into the hundreds.
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