ArtistInfo

Nancy Harrow

voc, *1930 US, New York City
Singer / Musician / Songwriter of Jazz

Nancy Harrow (born October 3, 1930, New York City) is an American jazz singer and songwriter.Harrow studied classical piano from age seven, then decided to pursue careers in dancing and singing. She released an album for Candid Records in 1960 (featuring Kenny Burrell, Buck Clayton, Dickie Wells, and Milt Hinton) and one for Atlantic Records in 1962 (featuring John Lewis, Dick Katz, Phil Woods, Jim Hall, Richard Davis, and Connie Kay), then left music to raise a family, returning to a career in music in 1975. Since then she has worked with Katz and Woods again, Clark Terry, Roland Hanna, and Bob Brookmeyer, among others. She has recorded 16 albums, five of them her own inventions (music and lyrics) based on literary subjects—a Willa Cather novel (Lost Lady), a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Genres

• Jazz
• Blues
• Pop