Jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson's unmistakable sound blends rural
blues, urban eclecticism, and a true improviser's ability to make a
song her own. This performance pays a loving homage to one of her
great inspirations, the beloved and tragic vocalist Billie Holiday. In
a Jazztimes interview, Wilson explains, "What I'm doing is more a
Billie way of singing...It was not based on dexterity so much as on
the roundness of her tone, the color inside the voice. And how much of
her life is in that?"
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19/05/2015 Last update