Cassandra Wilson - Wikipedia
Wilson explored guitar on her own, developing what she has described as an "intuitive" approach. During this time she began writing her own songs, adopting a folk style. She also appeared in the musical theater productions, including The Wizard of Oz as Dorothy, crossing racial lines in a recently desegregated school system.
Cassandra Wilson bio - JazzInfo
Wilson’s repertoire contains both jazz and blues standards as well as renditions of pop songs and rock songs. Her contralto voice is described as bluesy, sultry and her musical style ranges from swing to bossa nova to funk.
Cassandra Wilson | Biography, Albums, & Facts | Britannica
2024年11月30日 · Cassandra Wilson, American musician whose recordings combined such musical genres as jazz, rap, and hip-hop. She performed jazz standards, folk songs, Delta blues, and pop classics as well as many original numbers that defied categorization.
Cassandra Wilson: The New Standard - JazzTimes
2002年5月1日 · There were two main sources for Wilson’s new vocal style. One was in the Mississippi Delta, where singers like Robert Johnson, Son House and Muddy Waters had blurred the boundaries between singing, the moaning of despair and the moaning of orgasm.
10 Tracks I Can’t Do Without: Cassandra Wilson - UK Jazz News
2023年12月7日 · Cassandra Wilson’s organic style fits in as she removed herself and her singing away from the traditional Jazz beautiful singer model. This song is soooo sexy. Mixed with John Coltrane’s “In a Sentimental Mood”, Nia Long and Laurenz Tate negotiated their modern love story that I kinda live as a single woman today.
Cassandra Wilson - National Endowment for the Arts
Her releases on the label from 1993 to 2010 revealed the artistic depth of her musical adventurousness in interpreting and reinventing songs and musical styles from blues to Afro-Cuban to country. The albums were well-received by critics and the public, expanding the audience for jazz by taking on songs outside of the jazz canon.
Jazz Warriors: Cassandra Wilson | FBACM
She has a technically astonishing range, striking and instantly identifiable sound, and precise, delightful way of presenting songs and telling stories. Wilson can comfortably perform any type of material in multiple tempos, and work smoothly with small combos, large groups, or solo.
Cassandra Wilson - Encyclopedia.com
2018年6月8日 · Despite Wilson's renown, her sedate vocal style had its detractors. In 2002 the New York Times criticized her voice as lacking emotional depth: "Because it's more sumptuous than a voice has any right to be, it wavers perilously between seductiveness and self-parody."
Metroactive Music | Cassandra Wilson
1996年8月29日 · Her poetic style treats the words as sound as opposed to staying within the familiar musical structures. Typical of jazz is a formulaic style in which each verse builds upon the next until the "hook."
Cassandra Wilson: Traveling Miles album review - All About Jazz
1999年5月1日 · Cassandra Wilson has an original vocal and performance style in the same way the late Betty Carter did. They both are aggressively experimental in their phrasing with absolutely no qualms about pushing the envelope to the edge.
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