Un grand merci à tous les participants de notre soirée Chez Moune. Petit extrait vidéo du set de Gilb'r. Pour l'instant, du calme. Calme, calme, calme. Cassandra Wilson - Vietnam Blues Jeunesse Fantôme - Les Ouvrières Chinoises Lucky Paul- I'd Rather Go Blind (Etta James Rework) Rue Proudhon - cassette 4-12-1981 Axel Boman - Arcimboldo
I snapped this just last week. How…timely. Cyndi Lauper & Sarah McLachlan : Time After Time [ purchase ] Cassandra Wilson : Time After Time [ purchase ] Here's a 1983 classic that always seems more recent to me than it is…I have to remember that the 80s were 30-ish years ago. A boatload of covers exist for this song [...]
Cassandra Wilson: Harvest Moon [ purchase ] I can't imagine this week going by without offering up jazz diva Cassandra Wilson's beautiful interpretation of "Harvest Moon", the closing track to her critically acclaimed 1996 album New Moon Daughter. The entire album sounds like it was recorded on a midsummer night among ancient oak trees draped in Spanish moss. Her version of "Harvest Moon" is gilded with melancholy and is a "must hear".
Cassandra Wilson : Waters of March [ purchase ] Listen to the words to Waters of March, and you may not hear why I am posting it for this week's theme. There are a few mentions of rain, but it doesn't appear to be the subject of the song. Actually, there doesn't appear to be a subject, just a list of things and impressions. The music offers no particular assistance, offering the cascading gentleness that is a hallmark of Brazilian music. The key is that many of the objects named in [...]
The pazz/jop contralto's latest-live and studio tracks mixed together with too little distinction. You would be hard-pressed to find a jazz singer in the last 20 years who has done a better job of combining popular and artistic success than Cassandra Wilson. When most jazz musicians turn to pop tunes and pop stylings, it is a purely calculated move. But when Wilson changed her direction in 1993 with Blue Light Till Dawn, embracing a guitar-centric band sound and combining Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, and Robert Johnson tunes with...
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News The artist currently known as Prince has always been one of those "due to popular demand" types. Indeed, after selling out two upcoming Madison Square Garden performances in a matter of minutes, Prince announced on Thursday an additional date at the storied New York arena on January 18. Tickets will go on sale Friday, December 10 at noon, local time. Additionally, a show at the IZOD Center, just across the New [...]
Guardian Silver Pony has an autobiographical spin, mixes the singer's familiar fascination for the blues with Lennon/McCartney, Stevie Wonder and three originals, and includes a duet with John Legend as the finale. BBC Wilson's vein of excellent form continues with this fine live set. I haven't found any videos yet but her voice is sublime
Filed under: All About Jazz Cassandra Wilson made her appearance Wednesday night, Nov. 17, at Manhattan's Blue Note jazz club as she usually does, coming onstage after her band warms the crowd up for a few minutes. This was the second night of a brief two-night stand at the club to celebrate the release of her new album, 'Silver Pony.' After joining the group for a loose version of the Ellington standard 'Caravan,' she introduced the musicians and stated that this new album was [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News The artist formerly known by a symbol, Prince , announced on Thursday plans to launch a tour entitled 'Welcome 2 America' which will begin in December and continue until who knows when -- Prince reportedly gave much spectacle but few details during a press conference held at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem, reports Billboard . "Bring your friends, bring your children, and bring foot spray because it's going to be [...]
Prince already holds many titles - guitar legend, Vikings fan , GAYNGS lover , and potential Glastonbury 2011 headliner are among the initial ones that come to mind. Now, you can also refer to him as master of ceremonies. Today, Prince announced plans for "Welcome 2 America", a forthcoming series of North American concerts hosted by the Purple One. Prince and his band, New Power Generation, will perform alongside some of his favorite R&B and funk artists, including Janelle Monae, Mint Condition, Esperanza Spalding, and Cassandra Wilson. "Bring your friends, bring [...]
Silver Pony , the stunning new album from multiple Grammy Award-winning jazz-pop chanteuse Cassandra Wilson , will be released by EMI's Blue Note Records on November 9, 2010. Cassandra Wilson, whose remarkable, husky-tinged vibrato has created a trademark sound for her as an artist, will be touring worldwide in support of the release which features special guests saxophonist Ravi Coltrane ( "Silver Moon" ) and R&B singer-songwriter John Legend ( "Watch The Sunrise" ). Buy CDs, MP3s, [...]
Grammy-winning jazz/pop vocalist Cassandra Wilson returns October 26 with Silver Pony , an interesting "hybrid" album mixing in new studio recordings with tracks culled from a European tour. As always, Wilson's immaculate phrasing and acclaimed interpretive powers are on display on the wide-ranging mix of songs -- covers and originals -- from the Beatles ' "Blackbird" to the classic Big Easy standard "St. James Infirmary" (made famous by Louis Armstrong) to Billie Holiday's "Lover Come Back to [...]
Cassandra Wilson : You Gotta Move [ purchase ] You Gotta Move is an old song, originally by Mississippi Fred McDowell. There are any number of cover versions, done as gospel, blues, and rock n roll. The Rolling Stones and Aerosmith have both done versions. And yet, at its heart, this is one of the simplest songs you will ever hear. There is barely anything to the lyrics, and the song moves along on a slow blues groove that is almost unchanging. So what is the appeal? Actually, the [...]
Image from Inga Scholes Herbie Hancock, ft. Luciana Souza : Amelia [ purchase ] Dianne Reeves : River [ purchase ] Cassandra Wilson : For The Roses [ purchase ] Call this entry Jazz Does Joni, Part Two; The Vocalists. On my last post I focused on tunes that ripped [...]
Good book When Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded the assassinated President Kennedy he was hailed enthusiastically by the blues and gospel singers, most of whom had been born in the southern states and saw an ally in the new Texas president. Johnson's acute political skills ensured that the 1964 Civil Rights Bill was approved by Congress. However, the President was not allowed to reap the benefits of the Act for long. The violent clash in Selma, Alabama, sped up the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Next, the plight of the black ghettoes led [...]
The Soul of a Man 2003 - A film by Wim Wenders In "The Soul of A Man," director Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of his favorite blues artists: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. It doesn't get particularly good reviews but the soundtrack is pretty impressive. Cassandra does well here With the original here The Soul Of A Man [...]
I'm a bit under the weather, and so is the sky, dropping branches and rain on the newly-cleared lawn and wreaking havoc on our 'net connection. I've got some great new music to share, and it's burning me up not to be able to bring it out this evening...but under the circumstances, I'm thinking something a little less strenuous might be more apropos. Hope no one minds a repost, from the aftermath of a similar storm two summers ago, with a promise of something more substantive to follow later in the week... [...]
Not sure what happened, but this evening after supper and a nap I woke up shivery and dizzy and speech-blurred, face burning, my arms and head heavy as if not my own. Oddly, I know this particular feverish feeling - more than anything, from memories of the dreadest of still-drunk hangovers - but as I haven't had a drink in weeks, I'm forced to consider that either I've suddenly developed food poisoning from this evening's fish & chips, or my body has decided to rebel against my schedule. Maybe I've been pushing myself too hard. [...]
It's a good week to be a florist. Valentine's Day is around the corner and roses are selling like a product that actually has some practical value. No, I never quite saw the romance in a present that will make you bleed if you hold it the wrong way. I think this is why no one ever gives me roses. That and the fact that I'm a guy.Sexton Blake - Rose Parade (Elliott Smith)You don't forget the
The news runs all night and all day: in the barber shop, at the proverbial watercooler, on the seldom-watched television that has always lurked in the corner of our living room. In class, I ask my students to search news sites and blogs, and report on all the ways that social media - the stuff of postmodern interconnection - serves our global awareness. At night, my daughter and I find Haiti on the map, and I explain: how the houses were poorly built, how the concrete fell on the people: look, there they are in photographs, [...]
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