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CASSANDRA WILSON - Thunderbird
| Music Angle | Whether covering Robert Johnson, Joni Mitchell, Hank Williams or The Monkees (Boyce and Hart), Cassandra Wilson’s sultry, commanding voice has always worked effectively set against spare, moody backdrops.
In this collaboration with Wilson, T-Bone Burnett freshens and clarifies the setting but he doesn’t tinker with that winning formula established by Craig Street on Wilson’s startling 1993 debut, Blue Light ‘til Dawn ...full text |
| | Popmatters | Cassandra Wilson is the only jazz singer worth listening to these days, and now she’s not even a jazz singer anymore.
Whatever that means.
In fact, there have never been more fine jazz singers to choose from, but a precious few are serious about bringing something new to the art. The danger is of the rock-and-hard-place variety: if you bring jazz singing into today’s music, it seems to become something else altogether, but if you don’t—you risk singing Gershwin less well than Ella for the rest of your life. Cassandra Wilson has dared to leave the trappings of jazz behind, and yet her artful voice has somehow made the idea of “jazz singing” new again....full text |
| | Times Online | | On recent albums Cassandra Wilson has pursued her pared-down sound — acoustic guitars, discreet percussion — to diminishing effect. Glamoured and Belly of the Sun were tasteful but, by her standards, hardly essential records. Thunderbird is a change of direction that succeeds magnificently....full text |
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