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Jazz & Blues: A Tribute to B.B. King
by Jim Santella
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Jazz Saxophone Competition and concert Kodak Theater Los Angeles, California October 26, 2008 As Poncho Sanchez opened the concert alone on stage with a serious chant aloud over his conga drums, the audience was reminded that jazz is composed of parts ...
Singer Cassandra Wilson Interviewed at AAJ
The deep, rich voice of Cassandra Wilson, now among the most exalted of jazz vocalists, is something to savor. She has an adventurous spirit when it comes to her music, and whether playing with original melodies, or turning others songs--of jazz, folk, blues or pop origin--inside out, it's always something to relish, like a fine brandy ...
Cassandra Wilson: Creating Loverly Sound
by R.J. DeLuke
The deep, rich voice of Cassandra Wilson, now among the most exalted of jazz vocalists, is something to savor. She has an adventurous spirit when it comes to her music, and whether playing with original melodies, or turning others songs--of jazz, folk, blues or pop origin--inside out, it's always something to relish, like a fine brandy ...
Cassandra Wilson: Loverly
by Suzanne Lorge
When Cassandra Wilson played New York's Blue Note Jun. 9th, she let her band jam a long time before she stepped into the heavy mix of groove and musical jest among the instrumentalists. The room was sweltering because of the day's heat and the seemingly absent air conditioning, but Wilson never broke a sweat. Wilson always ...
Cassandra Wilson: Jazz Roots
by Suzanne Lorge
Over the last two decades Cassandra Wilson has emerged as one of the most celebrated jazz singers in the world--and with one album a year since 1985, she also ranks as one of the most prolific. Because of her openness to experimentation with grooves and repertoire, Wilson's work over the years has expanded our definition of ...
Cassandra Wilson - Loverly - Now Available in Stores and Online
Loverly is Grammy-winning vocalist Cassandra Wilson's first album of standards since her 1988 album Blue Skies. The record is a tantalizing, rhythmically driven collection of classic songs given new luster with a top-drawer band that includes Marvin Sewell on guitar, Jason Moran on piano, Herlin Riley on drums, Lonnie Plaxico and Reginald Veal on bass, and ...
Cassandra Wilson: Loverly
by Chris May
Cassandra Wilson's Loverly is amongst the singer's most straight-ahead and stripped down albums since her debut for Blue Note fifteen years ago with Blue Light 'Til Dawn (Blue Note, 1993). Self-produced, and recorded in a rented house in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi with little artifice, simple arrangements and a great sound, Wilson and a core ...
Fragile
Featuring the music of Cassandra Wilson
Duration: 6:42
Corcovado
Featuring the music of Cassandra Wilson
Duration: 6:34
Thunderbird
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Go to Mexico; Closer to You; Easy Rider; It Would Be So Easy; Red River Valley; Poet; I Want to be Loved; Lost; Strike a Match; Tarot.
