Nancy King (jazz singer)

Nancy King ( born June 15, 1940 in Eugene ( Oregon) as Nancy Whalley ) is an American singer of modern jazz.

Life and work

King studied from 1959 at the University of Oregon, where she appeared with Ralph Towner and Glen Moore. In 1960, she was expelled because they had committed to the civil rights movement. She moved to San Francisco, took lessons with Jon Hendricks and sat there, her career as a singer on, among other things, in the band of saxophonist Sonny King, who is also the father of her three sons. She has performed with, among others, John Handy, Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis. 1966 and 1967 she went on tour nationally, and then to work in Las Vegas. At the beginning of the 1970s, she returned to Oregon, where she appeared with Ralph Towner, David Friesen and Tom Grant in regional clubs and 1979 submitted a first album on which Ray Brown and Frank Strazzeri participated. With Glen Moore worked as a duo and performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival and in Europe. After she had released several albums with Glen Moore and other prominent companions, she mentioned the Downbeat 1994 "earned talent that further consideration " in his poll as. Furthermore, she was with Ray Brown and Steve Christofferson on tour. In 1996, she recorded an album with the Metropole Orkest. Your arisen with Fred Hersch album " Live at the Jazz Standard" was nominated for a Grammy in 2007. Furthermore, they can be heard on albums by Ray Brown, Oregon, the vocal jazz group Genesis and Karrin Allyson.

Disco Graphical Notes

• King & Moore Potato Radio (1992, with Art Lande, Bennie Wallace )
• Dreamlands, Vol 2 (1999-2001)