Cassandra Wilson - Sings Standards
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Artist: Cassandra WilsonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2002-07-16
Music Label: Umvd Labels
Soundtracks:
- Polka Dots And Moonbeams
- I Wished On The Moon
- 'Round Midnight
- Angel
- I've Grown Accustomed To His Face
- Chelsea Bridge
- I'm Old Fashioned
- Baubles, Bangles, And Beads
- Blue Skies
- Blue In Green
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Music Review: A Good Compilation for Wilson Fans and Newbies
Rating: 4 Stars
I doubt many of Cassandra Wilson's numerous fans knew her pre-Blue Note (New Moon Daughter and Blue Light Till Dawn) recordings. They were, like the Brooklyn-based approach to jazz from which her and her musicians grew, challenging. The sound was raw with jagged edges exposed and consisted of original material with some standards and eventually an albumn of them (probably to increase her mainstream exposure). These standards include some of the more challenging arrangements from that period as well as the more traditional jazz quartet arrangements. However, all take on the style of the singer not as deconstructions of the standards but solid interpretations of old friends. If you like Ms. Wilson you will like this collection. If you prefer some other jazz singer don't buy it, and if you think no one sings like Ella or Sarah or Carmen or Betty, then you should not be reading this, but please check out the numerous ladies who are doing their own thing and doing it well (too many to list here). This standards collection is one of the good ones, even if she has moved on in recent recordings to interpret a new set of songs. Check this out -- and then check out her new one, Belly of the Sun, for a nice take on what music free of simple labels sounds like. I will have some of that!
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Japanese edition of 2002 compilation on Verve featuring 11 classics including 'Polka Dots and Moonbeams', 'I Wished On the Moon' & 'Blue Skies'.Jazz fans who complain about not hearing enough jazz in Cassandra Wilson's eclectic sound, which has increasingly tilted toward pop and blues, will find ample rewards in this collection of her (relatively) straight-ahead efforts from the late '80s. Drawing from four albums for the JMT label, it charts her steady growth away from Brooklyn's electric, funk-based M-Base school and into an earthier, more personal approach. Going to school herself on Betty Carter's elastic time feel and unhurried rhythms, she avoids predictability on songs such as "'Round Midnight" and a wordless rendering of Billy Strayhorn's "Chelsea Bridge." There's less interest in her handling of earlier standards such as "I'm Old Fashioned" and "Blue Skies," which lack depth, but never any lack of attractiveness. --Lloyd Sachs
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