Save Your Love For Me: Nancy Wilson Sings the Great Blues Ballads

by Nancy Wilson

Overview

Excelling at the art of blues balladry demands that a musician possess great feeling but also great control. No surprise then, that one of its greatest practitioners, Nancy Wilson, has both traits in abundance. Save Your Love for Me: Nancy Wilson Sings the Great Blues Ballads is one in a loose series of three Capitol compilations to compile her late-'50s and early-'60s prime, the others focusing on the Great American Songbook and the torch song. The title track leads off the set, as it should, considering that Wilson's co-billed collaborative LP with Cannonball Adderley's quintet is the highlight of her career, and no single performance proves it more than this one (both Cannonball's alto and brother Nat's cornet echo her weary yet hopeful tone). The rest of the songs involve a larger band -- excepting two tracks from her only other major quintet collaboration, The Swingin's Mutual! with George Shearing -- but Wilson preserves the late-night feel (helped greatly by the sympathetic charts of Billy May and Mike Melvoin's organ). Throughout her career Nancy Wilson proved her talents in many fields -- jazz singing, ballads, pop music, crossovers -- but she never sounded better than when she was given an unhurried arrangement to stretch out on a slow blues, and any listener who wanted to concentrate only on the essence of Nancy Wilson could hardly do better than purchase this collection. ~ John Bush

Product Details

Release Date:	08/30/2005
Label:	Capitol / Blue Note
UPC:	0724347755828

Tracks

1. Save Your Love for Me
2. In the Dark
3. Don't Go to Strangers
4. This Bitter Earth
5. Willow Weep for Me
6. All Night Long
7. Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You
8. Please Send Me Someone to Love
9. Just for a Thrill
10. Born to Be Blue
11. I Wanna Be Loved
12. Make Me a Present of You
13. Blue Prelude
14. Since I Fell for You
15. Don't Take Your Love from Me

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Nancy Wilson   Primary Artist,Vocals
Cannonball Adderley   Primary Artist,Sax (Alto)
George Shearing Quintet   Primary Artist
Carol Kaye   Guitar (Bass),Bass (Electric)
Buster Williams   Guitar (Bass),Bass
Jack Nimitz   Sax (Baritone)
Arthur "Skeets" Herfurt   Saxophone
Chuck Berghofer   Bass
Chuck Cooper   Trombone
Walter Bolden   Drums
Larry Bunker   Percussion
Jack Wilson   Piano,Celeste
Kenny Dennis   Drums
Felix Slatkin   Violin
Joe Maini   Sax (Alto)
Don Fagerquist   Trumpet
Allan Harshman   Viola
Joe Zawinul   Piano
Gene Estes   Percussion
Don Smith   Trumpet
Joe Pass   Guitar
Bob Bain   Guitar
John Ewing   Trombone
Louis Hayes   Drums
Sam Jones   Bass
Samuel Boghossian   Violin
Pete Candoli   Trumpet
Meyer Rubin   Bass
Al Hendrickson   Guitar
Butch Stone   Clarinet,Sax (Baritone)
Buddy Collette   Reeds
George Shearing   Piano
George Duvivier   Bass
Harold Land   Sax (Tenor)
Harry "Sweets" Edison   Trumpet
Herb Ellis   Guitar
Paul Shure   Violin
Willie Smith   Saxophone
Clyde Reasinger   Trumpet
James Getzoff   Violin
George Poole   Cello
Donn Trenner   Piano,Harpsichord
Mundell Lowe   Guitar
Harry Bluestone   Violin
Billy May   Conductor
Wilbur Schwartz   Saxophone
Chuck Gentry   Reeds,Saxophone
Jimmy Woods   Sax (Alto)
Stan Levey   Drums
Teddy Edwards   Sax (Tenor)
Shelly Manne   Drums
Virginia Majewski   Viola
Edgar Lustgarten   Cello
Miles Anderson   Trombone
Tony Terran   Trumpet
Bobby Bryant   Trumpet
Bob Edmondson   Trombone
Israel Baker   Violin
John Audino   Trumpet
Alvin Dinkin   Viola
Bill Perkins   Reeds
Bonnie Douglas   Violin
Kenny Shroyer   Trombone
Gerald Wilson   Conductor
Victor Feldman   Percussion
Jules Jacob   Reeds
James A. Decker   French Horn
Arthur Frantz   French Horn
Joe Graves   Trumpet
Vern Friley   Trombone
Harry Klee   Saxophone
Jimmy Salko   Trumpet
Dan Lube   Violin
William Calkins   Reeds
Eddie Kusby   Trombone
Stanley Harris   Viola
Paul Robyn   Viola
William McLeish Smith   Reeds
Mickey McMahan   Trumpet
Williams Vandenberg   Cello
Carmell Jones   Trumpet
Bill Green   Reeds,Saxophone
Catherine Gotthoffer   Harp
Armand Karpoff   Cello
Edward Bergman   Violin
Bobby Gibbons   Guitar
Pullman Pederson   Trombone
Albert Steinberg   Violin
Lew McReary   Trombone
Ambrose Russo   Violin
Lester Robertson   Trombone
Ronnell Bright   Piano,Conductor
Ralph Pena   Bass
Marshall Sosson   Violin
Nat Adderley   Cornet
Walter Edelstein   Violin
Ray Triscari   Trumpet
Mischa Russell   Violin
Red Callender   Tuba
Milt Bernhart   Trombone
Uan Rasey   Trumpet
Bob Richards   Reeds
Gerald Vinci   Violin
Dick Noel   Trombone
Abe Aaron   Sax (Tenor)
Jules Jacobs   Reeds
Earl Palmer   Drums
Justin Gordon   Saxophone
Benny Carter   Reeds,Saxophone
Eleanor Slatkin   Violin
Eddie Costa   Vibraphone
Freddie Hill   Trumpet
Vincent DeRosa   French Horn
Dick Garcia   Guitar
Richard Taylor "Dick" Nash   Trombone
Howard Roberts   Guitar
Jimmy Bond   Bass
Jimmy Jones   Piano,Conductor
Plas Johnson   Saxophone
Nick Ceroli   Drums
Mike Melvoin   Organ
Milt Raskin   Piano
Stumpy Brown   Tuba,Trombone (Bass)
Al Porcino   Trumpet
Lou Raderman   Violin
Jim E. Hill   Trombone (Bass)
Don Switzer   Trombone
John Collins   Guitar
Jacques Gasselin   Violin
Ann Mason Stockton   Harp
Bill Ulyate   Reeds
David Pratt   Cello
Benny Gill   Violin
Richard Perissi   French Horn
Nino Rosso   Cello
Ann Goodman   Cello
Sanford Schonbach   Viola
Jules Chaikin   Trumpet
Bob Davis & Rhythm Jesters   Clarinet,Sax (Alto)
Jules Vogel   Trumpet
Fred Haller   Clarinet,Sax (Alto)
William Schaefer   Trombone
Nancy Jo Wilson   Vocals
Thelma Beach   Violin
Bobby Clark   Trumpet
Ronald Smith   Trombone

Technical Credits

Andy Wiswell   Audio Production,Producer
Tom Morgan   Audio Production,Producer
Dave Cavanaugh   Audio Production,Producer
Joe Bishop   Composer
Clyde Otis   Composer
Joe Greene   Composer
Curtis Reginald Lewis   Composer
Don Raye   Composer
John W. Green   Composer
Lillian Armstrong   Composer
Lil Armstrong   Composer
Arthur Kent   Composer
George Jerman   Cover Photo,Photography
Henry Nemo   Composer
Walter Kent   Composer
Billy May   Arranger
David Mann   Composer
Andy Razaf   Composer
Billy Vera   Liner Notes
Billy Rose   Composer
Gerald Wilson   Arranger
Gordon Jenkins   Composer
Ann Ronell   Composer
Robert Wells   Composer
Curtis Lewis   Composer
Ken Veeder   Photography
Ron McMaster   Mastering
Richard Seidel   Compilation Producer
Percy Mayfield   Composer
R. Evans   Composer
Mel Torme   Composer
Buddy Johnson   Composer
Dave Mann   Composer
Edward Heyman   Composer
Don Redman   Composer
Patrick Roques   Design,Art Direction
Johnny Green   Composer
Lillian "Lil" Green   Composer
Jimmy Jones   Arranger
Lil Green   Composer
Gordon H. Jee   Creative Director
Raymond Evans   Composer