Jazz Articles about Eva Cassidy

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Radio & Podcasts

Andy Sheppard, Jonathan Karrant, Eva Cassidy, Wadada Leo Smith

by Cheryl K.
September 17, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--pianists/composers Senri Oe, Kelly Green, and Sullivan Fortner; saxophonists Andy Sheppard and Linda Sikhakhane; vocalists Jonathan Karrant, Eva Cassidy, and Brigitte Fontaine; guitarist Aaron Quinn's Sunchoke; and the duo David / David.Playlist Rare Silk “Storm" from American Eyes (Palo Alto) 5:33 Senri Oe “Pure Scars" from Homework (PND) 5:19 Yelena Eckemoff “Gamla Stan" from Rosendals Garden (L&H Productions) 9:35 Aaron Quinn's Sunchoke “Sunchoke" from To Be Held (Endectomorph ) ...

Album Review

Eva Cassidy: Nightbird

Read "Nightbird" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
January 8, 2016

The late singer/guitarist Eva Cassidy (1963-1996) was a possibility nature did not allow fulfilled. Barely started in what promised to be a successful career, Cassidy died at 33 from malignant melanoma, the same year her notable Live at Blues Alley (Eva Music) was recorded and released. The present Nightbird is the expansion and 20th Anniversary celebration of a life ended too soon and a recording promising so much. Recorded January 3, 1996, Cassidy would be gone by November...a streak of ...

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Album Review

Eva Cassidy: Live at Blues Alley

Read "Live at Blues Alley" reviewed by Mathew Bahl

by Mathew Bahl
April 12, 2002

When Eva Cassidy died of cancer on November 2, 1996, few people outside of the Washington D.C. area had heard of this shy, young singer/guitarist. Five years later, a posthumously released collection of Ms. Cassidy’s work has sold well over one million copies in Europe and the United States. The reason for Ms. Cassidy’s appeal is simple. She had one of the most beautiful voices of her generation. Although a soprano, her singing had neither the stiff formality of a ...