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Music > Albums > Nancy Wilson - A Nancy Wilson Christmas (2001) Retail CD
added on April 26, 2007, at 14:28 by allcdcovers

Has Nancy Wilson ever made a public move in her four-decade career that wasn't tasteful? Aside from a couple of small-print notices, purchasers of A Nancy Wilson Christmas would never know that Wilson intends to donate her royalties from her first full-length Christmas disc to the Pittsburgh-based Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, an arts and education centre for lower-income residents. Wilson moves here between quietly felt moods with astute shifts in arrangement size; her trio, the Dizzy Gillespie alumni orchestra, and a chamber group are among the varied settings. As a choice for a houseful of family on Christmas Eve, this could hardly be better. A seemingly unpromising match between Wilson and the supremely fussy quartet New York Voices on "Carol of the Bells" ends up as one of the album's most sustained performances. --Rickey Wright

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