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Uncut - Hard Rain Volume One - A Tribute to Bob Dylan
(more) »rank: 50247by: The Waterboys, Bill Kirchen, Johnny Marr, Howard Devoto/Luxuria, Thea Gilmore, The Band, The Hollies, Robert Palmer, Cat Power, Todd Rundgren
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Glamoured
(more) »rank: 98321by: Cassandra Wilson
:Album Description:'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 ...
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Dance to the Drums Again
(more) »rank: 71213by: Cassandra Wilson
: essential recording:On this early-1990s release, guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly began a string of increasingly sympathetic producers. Production, and judicious instrumentation, are crucial to Cassandra Wilson's deep, arch aesthetic. Here, her smoky voice finds a casual, sensuous, tenor-sax richness amid Bourelly's electric-guitar riffing. Her singing suggests many inspirations. Betty Carter and Nina Simone, certainly, but Ella, Sarah, and Billy echo in her poise, personality, and stylishness. Dinah Washington and Carmen McRae come to mind as well. Also formative were Wilson's 1980s contributions to New York's M-Base collective. They involved exploration of all the African-American musics then afloat. M-Base also was committed to artistic self-definition. ...
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Thunderbird
(more) »rank: 358839:Album Description:Japanese pressing with no extras. Cassandra Wilson never fails to surprise and inspire. Sexy, honey-velvet vocals wrapped around her own jazzy blue compositions or inventive interpretations of others' material led TIME magazine to name her 'America's Best Singer' in recent years. On this, her 7th album for Blue Note, she has collaborated with red hot producer T Bone Burnett to surprise, yet again. Blue Note. 2006.
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Belly of the Sun
(more) »rank: 357072by: Cassandra Wilson
:Album Description:Japanese edition of the acclaimed jazz vocalist's 2002 album includes one exclusive bonus track, 'Corcovado'. 2002.
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After the Beginning Again
(more) »rank: 295205by: Cassandra Wilson
:Album Description:Japanese edition of the acclaimed jazz vocalist's 2002 album includes one exclusive bonus track, 'Corcovado'. 2002.
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She Who Weeps
(more) »rank: 299451by: Cassandra Wilson
: :Cassandra Wilson's molasses contralto, akin to R&B, is wholly her own even though fully informed by jazz-vocals history. Here in 1990 she fully arrives as an interpreter of both her own and others' material. Her inflection and shading are wonderfully varied, as are her classically trained sense of pacing and form, and her command of dramatic delivery. The instrumental coloration, not yet as distinctive as on her later Blue Note releases, nonetheless effectively augments her voice's saxlike elaborations of the melodies. She has ideal accompaniment here, particularly pianist Rod Williams and percussionist Tani Tabbal. The highlight is the painfully fragile title track, a ...
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Traveling Miles
(more) »rank: 304143by: Cassandra Wilson
: :Cassandra Wilson's tribute to Miles Davis, Traveling Miles, is nothing if not ambitious--easily on par with the other slew of Davis tribs. Covering the great trumpeter's long career is alone quite a challenge, but Wilson sets her goals even higher by writing new lyrics and arrangements that make these tunes her own. The result is a pleasure that ends up capturing Wilson's spirit as well as Davis's. Never one to hew to traditional jazz's formats, Wilson adds acoustic and slide guitars, percussion, harmonica, and other instruments that give the album an enormously varied feel. 'Right Here, Right Now,' with its strummed and slide ...
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Blue Skies
(more) »rank: 332946by: Cassandra Wilson
: :Cassandra Wilson's tribute to Miles Davis, Traveling Miles, is nothing if not ambitious--easily on par with the other slew of Davis tribs. Covering the great trumpeter's long career is alone quite a challenge, but Wilson sets her goals even higher by writing new lyrics and arrangements that make these tunes her own. The result is a pleasure that ends up capturing Wilson's spirit as well as Davis's. Never one to hew to traditional jazz's formats, Wilson adds acoustic and slide guitars, percussion, harmonica, and other instruments that give the album an enormously varied feel. 'Right Here, Right Now,' with its strummed and slide ...
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Jumpworld
(more) »rank: 317602by: Cassandra Wilson
: :Cassandra Wilson's tribute to Miles Davis, Traveling Miles, is nothing if not ambitious--easily on par with the other slew of Davis tribs. Covering the great trumpeter's long career is alone quite a challenge, but Wilson sets her goals even higher by writing new lyrics and arrangements that make these tunes her own. The result is a pleasure that ends up capturing Wilson's spirit as well as Davis's. Never one to hew to traditional jazz's formats, Wilson adds acoustic and slide guitars, percussion, harmonica, and other instruments that give the album an enormously varied feel. 'Right Here, Right Now,' with its strummed and slide ...
