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Cassandra Wilson | Essential albums and listening guide
Explore Cassandra Wilson through Blue Light 'Til Dawn. Discover what to listen for and follow related styles to your next record.
Cassandra Wilson
Meet the artist
A singer known for a deep, low voice and bold reinterpretations, bringing blues, country and folk into jazz vocal expression. A deep, composed voice gives words room to resonate.
Acoustic guitar and percussion help place familiar songs in unfamiliar landscapes. Repertoire beyond jazz standards connects different strands of American song through one voice. Changes of tempo and instrumental texture illuminate other sides of a lyric rather than merely reproduce the original. Earthy sounds and sophisticated improvisation make song a route across genre boundaries.
Where to start listening
Listen to the texture of the low voice and the strings and percussion around it. Including the gaps between vocal phrases helps you hear the record's atmosphere.
1993Blue Light 'Til Dawn
Cassandra Wilson
It’s a groundbreaking work released by Cassandra Wilson in 1993. She incorporated elements of folk and blues music into her style, establishing her own unique vocal approach.
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1995New Moon Daughter
Cassandra Wilson
A work by Cassandra Wilson from 1995. It reconstructed songs by Billie Holiday and U2 in a unique way, and received high praise both critically and artistically.
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