Here's the Wikipedia entry intro for her:
"Cassandra Wilson was an American jazz singer, songwriter and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. She was one of the most successful female jazz singers and has been described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating blues, country, and folk music into her work. She won numerous awards, including two Grammys, and was named "America's Best Singer" by Time magazine in 2001."
Here's the link to the rest of the entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_Wilson
I've mentioned elsewhere in this blog that I'm not a big fan of most instrumental jazz, but I do like a lot of vocal jazz. It's especially easy to like Wilson's stuff, because it's jazz mixed with other genres. Just look at some of the songs she covers here: "Harvest Moon" by Neil Young, "Death Letter" by blues legend Son House, "Love Is Blindness" by U2, "Last Train to Clarksville" by the Monkees, and "32-20 Blues" by Robert Johnson. That's not typical jazz fare, that's for sure!
At the time of this concert, he most recent album was "New Moon Daughter," released in 1995. About half of the songs performed are from that album. The last three songs here, "Solomon Sang," "A Little Warm Death" and "Until," were written by Wilson.
This recording sounds great because it was broadcast on a local radio station at the time. There was some talk in Dutch by a Dutch DJ between the songs, but I cut all that out.
This album is an hour and seven minutes long.
01 Harvest Moon (Cassandra Wilson)
02 Death Letter (Cassandra Wilson)
03 talk (Cassandra Wilson)
04 Love Is Blindness (Cassandra Wilson)
05 Last Train to Clarksville (Cassandra Wilson)
06 32-20 Blues (Cassandra Wilson)
07 Solomon Sang (Cassandra Wilson)
08 A Little Warm Death (Cassandra Wilson)
09 Until (Cassandra Wilson)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/Sx3CQ4tR
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/s7R84d6ElGZEyMu/file
The cover image comes from a concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland, in 1996.
Nice one, I can recommend the album Jumpworld which came out a few years earlier, a jazz/bop/rap album that was pretty unique at the time.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful way to revisit Cassandra Wilson’s music. I especially like the choice of this 1996 concert because the setlist shows just how naturally she could move between jazz, blues, folk and rock without losing her own identity. “Harvest Moon” and “Love Is Blindness” must have sounded incredible in that setting. The radio recording also gives it a nice time-capsule quality. It feels like the sort of discovery worth sitting with quietly, perhaps during a break on plinko.
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