Nancy Wilson obituary

Vocalist who brought a jazz sensibility to all kinds of songs and spent 60 years in the spotlightThe singer Nancy Wilson, who has died aged 81, did not consider herself a jazz vocalist – though many others did, including the Grammy awards judges (she won three), and such jazz-rooted playing partners as the saxophonist Cannonball Adderley and the pianists George Shearing and Hank Jones. Wilson preferred to call herself a “song stylist” – disinclined to mimic the byzantine