Cassandra Wilson - Glamoured
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Artist: Cassandra WilsonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-10-07
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Fragile
- Sleight Of Time
- I Want More
- If Loving You Is Wrong
- Lay Lady Lay
- Crazy
- What Is It
- Heaven Knows
- Honey Bee
- Broken Drum
- On This Train
- Throw It Away
Music reviews of Glamoured
Music Review: Miss Wilson and her players
Rating: 4 Stars
Cassandra Wilson's new album is a bit of a mixed bag. Producer Fabrizio Sotti has ensured a much better mix than the self-produced "Belly of the Sun", on which the bass seemed stuck in the Mississippi mud. The closer of this album, "Throw It Away" by Abbey Lincoln, is a duet for voice and double bass in full splendour. The use of two basses on Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" also is a special delight. Miss Wilson is offering six new songs, some of them co-authored by producer/guitar player Sotti. "I Want More", apparently improvised more or less on the spot, is an energetic groove.On most other songs tastefully picked guitar and discreet percussion provide an effective musical setting of the kind that Wilson fans will be familiar with (no trupets or cornets, though). Sotti mostly is a capable accompanist on the guitar. Sadly, on "What Is It?", an acid-jazzy tune that he co-authored, his Gibson guitar sound doesn't fit into the mix at all and his solo is utterly bland. Yuk! Are they going to use this song to get more airplay? I hope not.
The tracks that really take off are those featuring stalwart Brandon Ross, previously a major contributor to "Blue Light 'Till Dawn" and "New Moon Daughter" and Henry Threadgill's band Very Very Circus. He provides an accompaniment that is much more interesting, bluesy and atmospheric. The menacing mood that he creates on Muddy Waters' "Honey Bee" seems to inspire percussionist Jeffrey Haynes to greater heights, too. (During the 2003 North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague, Cassandra introduced Ross as her musical director, so perhaps we have more to look forward to.)
In all songs Cassandra Wilson's unique low alto is deployed with the familiar devastating effect. In that respect the album does certainly not disappoint.
A final note: due to the Copy Controlled format of this disc, I experienced playback (and other) problems on my G3 iMac. Not enough memory, I suppose. Can't say I wasn't warned, but still...
Description of Glamoured
"Glamoured" is a Gaelic word meaning to be whisked away, says vocalist and songwriter Cassandra Wilson, explaining the title of her new CD. "It's like being in a daydream, those split seconds when you're transfixed and your eyes don't move and you have to shake yourself out of it. This album captures the feeling of that reverie."Indeed, Wilson sets such a mood with her trademark mix of first-rate originals and adventurous covers of other songwriters' works, this time picking material by Sting, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Muddy Waters and Abbey Lincoln. Such eclectic tastes come naturally to Wilson, who began her musical career performing in and around her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. "Down South, musicians have to be able to play in many different circumstances and in many contexts," she says. "They have to play jazz, they have to integrate the blues, and they have to know country. And the lines are kinda blurry sometimes, 'cause that's what everybody wants to hear."
For the recording of "Glamoured" Cassandra once again returned to her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi with a list of good songs and an open mind. "For some albums, I'll have a very clear idea of where I want it to go," she says, "but this time I had questions about what kinds of sounds to explore."
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