Search results for "Cassandra Wilson"
New Air Featuring Cassandra Wilson: Apricots On Their Wings (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music April 16, 09At the beginning of her career - before her Blue Note albums made her a major jazz star - Cassandra Wilson was some...
Cassandra Wilson: The Weight (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 08, 09It's hard to top The Band's performance of this anthem on Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz from 1978. Then again, Ca...
Cassandra Wilson: You Don’t Know What Love Is (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music October 25, 07Cassandra Wilson’s ascension to successful musical iconoclast may trouble those who belabor the question of what is j...
Cassandra Wilson/Regina Carter/Bela Fleck: This Land Is Your Land (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music May 14, 09What a joy! The serendipity of this performance (recorded at a post-9/11 "Made in America" concert) and its inclusion...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MUSICAL AMERICANA
Jazz Americana, artwork by Suzanne Cerny Shortly ...
Cassandra Wilson: Red River Valley (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 24, 07When Hollywood's The Grapes of Wrath (1940) made "Red River Valley" the anthem of Dust Bowl Okies, moviegoers assumed...
Cassandra Wilson: Lover Come Back to Me (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 13, 08The rhythm section adopts a retro pose on this reworking of a 1928 Romberg and Hammerstein standard. Sewell's chug-a...
Cassandra Wilson: Poet (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music November 05, 07Oh, how I love those low notes! Most vocalists reach into their upper register to grab the audience’s attention, bu...
Cassandra Wilson: Easy Rider (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 17, 08Don’t be scared off by the personnel listing. You might assume that a recording with three bass players, two drummer...
Cassandra Wilson: Honey Bee (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 07, 07Wilson hails from Jackson, Mississippi, and on this track she digs deeply into the blues tradition of her home state....
Cassandra Wilson: Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music May 23, 08Wilson & Co. undertake a major renovation on this old standard. They shift most of the tune into a tiptoeing waltz te...
Wynton Marsalis: Blood on the Fields (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 22, 07Wynton Marsalis has built a career on high ambitions—including (for a start) assimilating the music vocabulary from H...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY VINTAGE WYNTON MARSALIS
Wynton Marsalis may be the most frequently discussed musician in jazz, but also among the least well understood. ...
Diana Krall: Too Marvelous for Words (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 28, 09I learned one thing on the playground basketball courts as a kid . . . if you keep on using the same moves over and o...
Wilson, Cassandra (Marie Fowlkes) posted in Encyclopedia March 20, 09Singer Cassandra Wilson has combined her experiences in jazz, folk and rhythm 'n' blues into an appealing and succe...
If There Were an American Idol Competition for Jazz Singers . . . posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 08, 09While the rest of the world is taking odds on who will win American Idol, jazz fans know where to look for the real...
Jazz Vocals in the New Millennium: Selected Listening posted in Features and Interviews February 13, 08NOTE: Here are links to track reviews of a representative sampling of jazz vocal performances released since the star...
The State of Jazz Vocals Today (Part One) posted in Features and Interviews February 13, 08By Ted Gioia How do we assess the current state of jazz singing? Of course, you can’t judge a CD by its cove...
Jazz Vocals in the New Millennium posted in The Jazz.com Blog February 13, 08Music critics tend to move with ease from review to review, but it is often harder for them to get a grasp of the big...
Payton, Nicholas (Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia May 21, 09Trumpeter Nicholas Payton's style combines the rich vibrato of Louis Armstrong with the flexible articulations of C...
Jazz Update from Italy (Part Two) posted in The Jazz.com Blog July 16, 08Below is Ted Panken's second dispatch from the Perugia, Italy, where he takes time out from the vino rosso and musi...
Weidman, James (James Edward Weidman Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Weidman, James [James Edward Weidman Jr.], piano; b. Youngstown, OH, 23 July 1953. He's studied with Tony Leonardi a...
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