Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson ( born December 4, 1955 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American jazz singer.
Wilson's repertoire includes both jazz and blues as well as pop and rock songs. Your alto voice is described as bluesy and sultry and her style of music ranges from swing to funk to bossa nova. She is two -time Grammy winner.
Life and work
At age nine, she took piano lessons and learned to play guitar, with 12 she wrote her first songs. After a successful study of communication science, during which they have appeared as a singer in the mid- 1970s, she first found work in New Orleans. In 1982, she moved to New York City and joined the musicians collective M-Base to Steve Coleman. Wilson Coleman, Greg Osby and Jean -Paul Bourelly found in the Munich producer Stefan Winter someone who released her first recordings on his newly founded label JMT. In 1986 she started with AACM co-founder Henry Threadgill and his trio Air New Air No. 1 on. Your own style and also a wider public response she found with her third album, Blue Skies (1988 ), a pure standard album, which she recorded only accompanied by a piano trio.
The breakthrough came in 1993 with the change from YMD to Blue Note Records and the album Blue Light ' Til Dawn, to their former neighbors Craig Wilson Street invited to produce for the first time. Due to their preference for Delta Blues ( Robert Johnson), Wed - 70 - Soul ( Ann Peebles ' " I Can not Stand the Rain", "Children of the Night," the Stylistics ) and songs by Van Morrison and Joni Mitchell, the unusual and sparse instrumentation with mainly acoustic guitars (including slide and steel guitar ) and percussion, the arrangements by Brandon Ross and the intimate, warm sound production they created together a groundbreaking milestone in their respective careers.
In 1994 she worked with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis together on the, the Pulitzer Prize (for music, 1997) excellent album Blood on the Fields. For New Moon Daughter 1997, the first Grammy followed for "Best Jazz Vocal Performance ," 2009, she won the Grammy for "Best Jazz Vocal Album " with the album Loverly.
In 2012 she left Blue Note and Another Country published in the independent Ojah media group based in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, the venue Yellow Scarf they also designed.
While Wilson oriented style or the M- Base style during their JMT - time, her repertoire opened with the change to Blue Note clearly in the direction of blues, pop and rock. Besides well-known jazz and blues songs and his own compositions she performed rock and pop songs like " The Weight " by The Band, Sting's "Fragile" Cyndi Lauper or " Time After Time ". The album Traveling Miles (1999), she dedicated the Miles Davis died in 1991; in the titles "Run the VooDoo Down," " Seven Steps ( to Heaven ) ", " VooDoo Reprise" and "Sky & Sea ( Blue in Green ) " they knew Davis ' compositions with a text and reinterpreted them. She was accompanied in these recordings, among others by Pat Metheny, Dave Holland, Terri Lyne Carrington, Steve Coleman and India.Arie.
She is married to actor Isaach De Bankole.
Albums
- Point of View ( JMT, 1986)
- Days Aweigh ( JMT, 1987)
- Blue Skies ( JMT, 1988)
- Jump World ( JMT, 1990)
- She Who Weeps ( JMT, 1991)
- Live ( JMT, 1991)
- After the Beginning Again ( JMT, 1992)
- Dance to the Drums Again ( DIW, 1992)
- Blue Light ' Til Dawn ( Blue Note, 1993)
- New Moon Daughter ( Blue Note, 1995)
- Songbook ( JMT, Compilation, 1996)
- Rendezvous ( with Jacky Terrasson ) ( Blue Note, 1997)
- Traveling Miles ( Blue Note, 1999)
- Belly of the Sun ( Blue Note, 2002)
- Sings Standards ( Verve, Compilation, 2002)
- Glamoured ( Blue Note, 2003)
- Thunderbird ( Blue Note, 2006 )
- Loverly ( Blue Note, 2008)
- Closer to You: The Pop Side ( compilation, 2009)
- Silver Pony ( Blue Note, 2010)
- Another Country ( Neo membrane / Sony, 2012)