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2010: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The jazz scene in 2010 was marked by a bit of cultural thaw between the U.S. and Cuba, royal honors for Marian McPartland that led honors galore for living jazz musicians, and significant acknowledgments for late jazz greats across North America. Efforts continued to expand jazz into new realms--or to hold on during the aftershocks of ...
C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2010
by C. Michael Bailey
My approach to selecting what I consider the best recordings of the year has changed every year. In 2010, I am citing those discs to which I gave 5 out of 5 stars. About midway through the year, I restricted myself to largely vocal jazz releases, explaining the abundance of such recordings on the list.
Silver Pony
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Lover Come Back To Me; Went Down to St. James Infirmary; A Night in Seville; Beneath A Silver Moon; Saddle Up My Pony; If It's Magic; Forty Days and Forty Nights; Silver Moon; A Day in the Life of a Fool; Blackbird; Watch the Sunrise.
Kellylee Evans: A Nod to Nina, Then Onward
by R.J. DeLuke
In a sense, singer Kellylee Evans was fast-tracked into her career in music, deciding relatively late in her still-young life that she would plunge into show business waters; waters that can sometimes be murky and beset with storms.When the Toronto, Canada-area woman made a decision to drop pursuit of a master's degree to pursue ...
Doug Wamble: A New Direction
by Matthew Warnock
It's never easy for an established artist to make a change in their musical output mid-career, especially if up until that point they have made a name for themselves in the realm of traditional jazz. While some of these artists make a switch because for monetary reasons or to reach a wider audience, others are drawn ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Cassandra Wilson
All About Jazz is celebrating Cassandra Wilson's birthday today! Cassandra WilsonThe voice is more visual than audible; shaded, iridescent, tangible, substantial. It seems to flow effortlessly. Read any of the dozen or so biographies on Cassandra Wilson and you’ll discover some basics: born and reared in Jackson... more Website ...
Charlie Haden Quartet West: Sophisticated Ladies
by Chris May
Gorgeous, poised and inviting. And that's just the sister on the cover of bassist Charlie Haden's latest with-singers-and-strings album. It's a retro design which, like the disc it packages, was inspired by Capitol Records' distinctive jazz-inflected vocal albums of the early 1960s. Your parents got off on this stuff big time back in the day, while ...
Cassandra Wilson Gives All the Band Members Some at Her Blue Note Gig
Cassandra Wilson made her appearance Wednesday night, Nov. 17, at Manhattan's Blue Note jazz club as she usually does, coming onstage after her band warms the crowd up for a few minutes. This was the second night of a brief two-night stand at the club to celebrate the release of her new album, 'Silver Pony.' After ...
Cassandra Wilson: Silver Pony
by C. Michael Bailey
Brilliant in spite of its ragged texture, Cassandra Wilson's Silver Pony justly illuminates the important influence Wilson has had on all jazz vocals, since her artistic breakthrough with 1993's Blue Light 'Til Dawn (Blue Note). A sharp solution of live and studio performances, Silver Pony reveals the depth and breadth of both Wilson's enigmatic singing and ...
Cassandra Wilson - Silver Pony (2010)
By Nick Deriso Cassandra Wilson, who consistently defies convention as this restless chanteuse, doesn't disappoint with Silver Pony—issued today on Blue Note as the long-awaited part-in studio, part-live followup to her celebrated Loverly. She has the vocal phrasing, the dusky intellect, of Charlie Parker and the elastic intuition of Betty Carter. Yet, Wilson is no throwback. ...
