Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson - Loverly (2008)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Feb. 29, 2024
Cassandra Wilson - Loverly (2008)

Cassandra Wilson - Loverly (2008)
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Contemporary Jazz / Modern Creative / Vocal Jazz / Standards
Blue Note Records #50999 5076992 6

Vocalist Cassandra Wilson has used her 15 years at Blue Note to explore the interpretive range of her voice, whether singing tunes by Van Morrison, Robert Johnson, Lewis Allan, Miles Davis, or Hoagy Carmichael. In many ways, Wilson has offered a new view of the standard by using classic rock and Delta blues tunes in her live and recorded repertoires. That said, Loverly is her first offering comprised almost completely of American songbook standards since Blue Skies 20 years ago. Wilson produced the recording in Jackson, MS, and surrounded herself with old friends: guitarist Marvin Sewell, bassists Reggie Veal and Lonnie Plaxico, drummer Herlin Riley, and labelmate and pianist Jason Moran.

Cassandra Wilson - Closer To You: The Pop Side (2009)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Aug. 3, 2023
Cassandra Wilson - Closer To You: The Pop Side (2009)

Cassandra Wilson - Closer To You: The Pop Side (2009)
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Contemporary Jazz / Jazz-Pop / Soul / World Fusion / Standards
Blue Note #50999 6960872 8

When most jazz singers do standards, they come from the "classic" American songbook, the one that includes show tunes and pop songs from a bygone era, one that was powered by names such as Gershwin, Lerner & Loewe, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Sammy Kahn, Johnny Mercer, and so many others. That said, Cassandra Wilson is not just any jazz vocalist, and her Blue Note catalog – the label she's been with since 1993 – proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt. Wilson has explored her deep love of jazz and blues to be sure, covering everyone from Robert Johnson to Miles Davis, but along the way she's also covered tunes by modern composers, those who have stormed the pop charts in the last 30 years or so, and those who are still on them. Closer to You: The Pop Side is a retrospective collection that looks at this side of Wilson's complex musical persona, and offers a selection of 11 tunes from her Blue Note albums, all of them focusing on songs from the rock, pop, and soul genres, and all executed in her own idiosyncratic manner.

Cassandra Wilson - Silver Pony (2010)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 28, 2023
Cassandra Wilson - Silver Pony (2010)

Cassandra Wilson - Silver Pony (2010)
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Genre: Vocal Jazz | Label: Blue Note | Catalog: 6297522

Yeah, Cassandra Wilson is a jazz singer, but she’s a 21st century jazz singer, mixing elements of jazz, pop, rock, Delta blues, and light funk into her performances, expanding what a jazz vocalist can be in a contemporary world with her horn player phrasing, smoky texture, and a voice that has matured into a haunting, sensual alto. She tackles some jazz standards, but she’s also adept at taking modern rock and old country-blues songs and finding a way to make them into new jazz standards, fully aware that she’s pushing boundaries in a genre that all too often plays it safe these days.

Cassandra Wilson - 4 Albums (2011)  Music

Posted by Rtax at July 18, 2023
Cassandra Wilson - 4 Albums (2011)

Cassandra Wilson - 4 Albums (2011)
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4:06:22 | Contemporary Jazz, Soul-Jazz, Vocal | Label: Blue Note / EMI

Blessed with a distinctive, flexible voice and genre-bending taste, Mississippi-born singer Cassandra Wilson is one of the best and most celebrated jazz singers of her generation. Influenced by the innovative styles of Betty Carter, Shirley Horn, and Nina Simone, Wilson emerged from Steve Coleman's M-Base Collective in the late '80s as a highly individualistic performer. Although she is an adept interpreter of the standards and blues-based jazz tradition, she's equally at home reinventing the songs of folk, pop, and country artists like Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Hank Williams, and the Beatles.

Cassandra Wilson - Point Of View (1986/1996)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Feb. 22, 2023
Cassandra Wilson - Point Of View (1986/1996)

Cassandra Wilson - Point Of View (1986/1996)
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Contemporary Jazz / Vocal Jazz / World Fusion / Standards / Avant-Garde / Free Funk / M-Base
JMT Productions #JMT 862 004 / 834 404-2

Point of View is the debut studio album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, recorded in Brooklyn, New York, in December 1985, as the fourth release of the German JMT label in 1986. It was also one of the first albums of a group of musicians around Steve Coleman, that became known as M-Base.

Cassandra Wilson - Thunderbird (2006)  Music

Posted by popsakov at March 8, 2023
Cassandra Wilson - Thunderbird (2006)

Cassandra Wilson - Thunderbird (2006)
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Vocal Jazz, Blues, Fusion | Blue Note #7243 8 63398 2 9

Cassandra Wilson's swinging for her own creative fences this time. The sultry, gentle, acoustic guitars on her last five recordings have been largely jettisoned for a more keyboard-and percussion -friendly approach – which includes lots of programming and loops. To that end, she's enlisted flavor-of-the-year producer T-Bone Burnett and keyboardist Keith Ciancia. This pair hired a stellar group of players that include drummer Jim Keltner, bassist Reginald Veal (a near-constant here), guitarists Colin Linden and Marc Ribot, and programming whiz Mike Elizondo. Mike Piersante plays "keypercussion" (read: drum loops), Jay Bellerose and Bill Maxwell also contribute kit work. Keb Mo' guests on a track.

Cassandra Wilson - Another Country (2012)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Jan. 10, 2021
Cassandra Wilson - Another Country (2012)

Cassandra Wilson featuring Fabrizio Sotti - Another Country (2012)
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Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Entertainment One (233573)

On her 19th album, Cassandra Wilson, ever the musical chameleon, changes directions once more. She is arguably the greatest living female jazz singer. Well known for her blues, soul, pop covers, and jazz standards, her smoky alto bends almost everything to its will. Wilson's phrasing is utterly unique, as original as any horn player's or pianist's music. Another Country, co-produced by Wilson and guitarist Fabrizio Sotti, was recorded in three different studios in Florence, New Orleans, and New York. She wrote all but three selections here: there are two instrumentals by Sotti and a reading of "O Sole Mio." Other players include bassist Nicola Sorato, Julien Labro on accordion, and percussionists Mino Cinelu and Lekan Babalola…
Jasmine feat.  Cassandra Wilson - Tropical Breeze (1981) {Inner City}

Jasmine feat. Cassandra Wilson - Tropical Breeze (1981) {Inner City}
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Genre: Latin Jazz, Vocal Jazz

When Tropical Breeze was recorded in New Orleans in 1980, Cassandra Wilson had yet to record as a solo artist or become a major name in jazz. But those who were hip to the singer back then knew that she had a lot of potential, and that included the other members of the Brazilian-oriented jazz-pop band Jasmine. In a perfect world, Wilson's brief stint as Jasmine's lead singer would have brought her commercial success. But Jasmine was obscure, and it wasn't until the '90s that Wilson finally received the type of attention that she deserved. It's safe to say that many of the singer's fans have never heard of Jasmine or Tropical Breeze, which was originally released on LP by Inner City and finally made its debut on CD when Japan's P-Vine label reissued it in 2002. But the album's obscurity doesn't make it any less enjoyable.

Cassandra Wilson - Live (1991)  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 24, 2020
Cassandra Wilson - Live (1991)

Cassandra Wilson - Live (1991)
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Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Polydor K.K./JMT Productions (849 149-2)

This live 1990 set makes clear that Cassandra Wilson had fully arrived. In the live setting, she calls on greater reserves of vim than mark her predominantly lolling, brooding studio dates. All to great effect. One senses Betty Carter-like showmanship, Peggy Lee-like swagger, and, of course, Nina Simone's otherworldly drone. Just as formative was Wilson's Joni Mitchell-inspired apprenticeship in the coffeehouses of Jackson, Mississippi, and other southern cities. She breathes fresh life into standards like "'Round Midnight." Her anthem of black resilience, "Don't Look Back," receives driving treatment. A telling selection is Wilson's own composition, "My Corner of the Sky," because its lyrics and delivery transport her to a distinctly personal space of the kind she was coming to inhabit so regally.

Cassandra Wilson - Traveling Miles (2004) [DVD-Audio]  Music

Posted by v3122 at July 29, 2021
Cassandra Wilson - Traveling Miles (2004) [DVD-Audio]

Cassandra Wilson - Traveling Miles (2004)
DVD-9: NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR
MLP 5.1 24/96, PCM 2.0 16/48, DTS 24/96 5.1
Jazz, Contemporary Jazz | ~ 8.08 Gb

~ A Tribute By Cassandra Wilson To Miles Davis. Recorded at The Hit Factory, NYC, December 1997 and at Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, NY, May & September 1998 ~