The Swingin's Mutual!
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| The Swingin's Mutual! | ||||
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| Released | March 1961 | |||
| Recorded | June 29 and July 5–6, 1960, January 7, 1961 | |||
| Studio | Capitol (Hollywood) | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Capitol ST-1524 | |||
| Producer | Pete Welding | |||
| George Shearing, Nancy Wilson chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| DownBeat |  [2] |
| New Record Mirror | 4/5[3] |
| The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz | [4] |
The Swingin's Mutual! is an album by the George Shearing quintet, accompanied on the original 1961 release on six songs by the vocalist Nancy Wilson.[5]
The initial Billboard review from March 13, 1961, commented of Wilson's singing that "These are standout renditions by the youthful thrush, in which she offers fanciful, stylised and sometimes moody interpretations as "Born to Be Blue", "The Things We Did Last Summer", "Let's Live Again" and "On Green Dolphin Street".[6] The contemporaneous DownBeat reviewer concluded: "This is a pleasant, at times, even enjoyable album. The biggest flaw is its superficiality and lack of real effort on the parts of two fine artists [Shearing and Wilson]".[2]
