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Alexandre Saada
Madeleine & Salomon: A Woman's Journey
by Jerome Wilson
A concept CD that looks at the plight of women throughout history is timely these days but not unusual. This disc by the duo Madeleine & Salomon, however, stands out by drawing from a broader swath of musical sources than you might hear in most similar projects. They touch on familiar songs like Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit" and Nina Simone's Four Women" but they also go farther afield to do tunes originally performed or written by Janis Ian, Marvin Gaye, ...
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