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| 1. | Iconic Memories
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| 2. | Chelsea Bridge
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| 3. | Out Loud (Jeris' Blues)
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| 4. | She Who Weeps
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| 5. | Angel
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| 6. | Body and Soul
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| 7. | New African Blues
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Jazz / Vocal
Recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, New York between July & December 1990
Cassandra Wilson (vocals); Rod Williams (piano); Paul Bourelly (guitar); Reggie Washington, Herman Fowlkes, Kevin Bruce Harris (electric bass); Tani Tabbal, Mark Johnson (drums)
She Who Weeps is a transition set of sorts for Cassandra Wilson. Having had good notices for her Blue Skies album (which found her interpreting standards in a style similar to Betty Carter), Wilson performs "Chelsea Bridge" and "Body and Soul." Most of the other selections still use the free funk rhythms that were a carryover from the singer's association with Steve Coleman and the M-Base players, although no horns are present this time around, just a three- or four-piece rhythm section. Interesting but not overly memorable music.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Cassandra Wilson
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Dec 04, 1955 in Jackson, MS
Genre: Vocal
Styles: Contemporary Jazz, Free Funk, M-Base, Standards, Vocal Jazz, World Fusion
Although her recording career has been somewhat erratic, Cassandra Wilson became one of the top jazz singers of the '90s, a vocalist blessed with a distinctive and flexible voice who is not afraid to take chances. She began playing piano and guitar when she was nine and was working as a vocalist by the mid-'70s, singing a wide variety of material. Following a year in New Orleans, Wilson moved to New York in 1982 and began working with Dave Holland and Abbey Lincoln. After meeting Steve Coleman, she became the main vocalist with the M-Base Collective. Although there was really no room for a singer in the overcrowded free funk ensembles, Wilson did as good a job of fitting in as was possible. She worked with New Air and recorded her first album as a leader in 1985. By her third record, a standards date, she was sounding quite a bit like Betty Carter.
After a few more albums in which she mostly performed original and rather inferior material, Cassandra Wilson changed directions and performed an acoustic blues-oriented program for Blue Note called Blue Light 'Til Dawn. By going back in time, she had found herself, and Wilson has continued interpreting in fresh and creative ways vintage country blues and folk music up until the present day. During 1997 she toured as part of Wynton Marsalis' Blood on the Fields production. Traveling Miles, her tribute to Miles Davis, followed two years later. For 2002's Belly of the Sun, she drew on an array of roots musics -- blues, country, soul, rock -- to fashion a record that furthered her artistic career while still aligning well with trends in popular music. Glamoured, released in 2003, posed a different kind of challenge; half the material was composed by Wilson herself. Unwilling to stand still, Wilson gently explored sampling and other hip-hop techniques for 2006's Thunderbird.
--- Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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