Cassandra Wilson News

Good morning. Today is the 338th day of the year. On this day in 1991, the last American hostage, Terry Anderson of the Associated Press, was released in Lebanon.

Main American musician born Dec. 4, 1955, Jackson, Miss., U.S. American musician whose recordings combined such musical genres as jazz , rap , and hip-hop . She performed jazz standards, folk songs , Delta blues, and pop classics as well as many original numbers that defied categorization.

Critically acclaimed jazz vocalist, Michelle Walker, will perform in double bill concerts with jazz vocalist Sachal Vasandani while on tour with The Yakov Okun Trio in Russia from November 22-29th . Michelle has spent the past few years amassing an impressive musical resume of concert and festival performances, including The Lincoln Center-Women in ...

With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.

Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz singer-songwriter and two-time Grammy Award winner from Jackson, Mississippi.

On her third album, Somi takes her sound to a new level that captures everywhere she's been - and where she is now Somi's new album, "If the Rains Come First,'' glistens with the sheen of an almost impossibly perfect cosmopolitanism, but that shouldn't be held against her.

With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:00pm & 8:00pm Sets The Zinc Bar 82 W 3rd St New York, NY 10012 477-8337 zincbar.com No Cover - $0 FEATURING: Michelle Walker - Vocals Robert Rodriguez - Piano Sandro Albert - Guitar Michael O'Brien - Bass John Davis - Drums This performance is a Special Showcase at the popular jazz lounge THE ZINC BAR.

It sounds like a bubbling brook, it looks like sunlight filtered through green leaves, and it smells like fresh air after a spring rain.

Chamber works and discussion by Roumain and Blair composers Rose, Slayton and Link 8 p.m. Oct 15 at Blair School of Music's Turner Recital Hall Darwin's Meditation for the People of Lincoln 8 p.m. Oct.

These critical quotes are more often used to hype a new Hollywood movie than to describe a drummer.

By Norbert Krapf In his latest striking collection, Indiana poet laureate and Indianapolis resident Norbert Krapf focuses his critical eye and passionate voice on the female form.

Calendar View Entire Calendar Biography Born: August 3, 1983 Coming soon. Press Quotes 'Kat Edmonson is the best new jazz singer I have heard in years and I know she will be around for years to come.' --Al Schmitt, 19-time Grammy winning producer and engineer 'memorable and contagious.' --NPR 'Edmonson might be the most promising American jazz ...

When: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Two sets: 8pm and 10pm Cover $25.00 Reservations are highly recommended!!! NY-based jazz vocalist Michelle Walker returns to her hometown for a wonderful evening of live jazz at this premier jazz venue.

Cassandra Wilson with Kenwood Academy students. Photo by Kristin Moo. For the past couple of weeks, high school students at Kenwood Academy in Hyde Park have been treated to a special substitute teacher of sorts.

It's time once again for one of those gratuitous plugs for StLJN's sibling site Heliocentric Worlds , which features a different online music video every day, drawn from genres including jazz, blues, soul, fuink classic rock, prog rock and experimental.

World-renowned jazz musician and vocalist Cassandra Wilson will kick off the Hyde Park Jazz Festival with a performance at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept.

If you like Diana Krall, Cassandra Wilson you might like Carla Starkie. The players: Carla Starkie , Ken Janzen , John Wise , Teddy Nazario Album vitals: 12 songs, 49 minutes Review: What a pleasant surprise to discover the charming jazz voice of Carley Starr , singing her originals with some of the top jazz guys in the region.

I think Brett Campbell seriously embarrasses himself as a local music critic when he describes the Mount Hood Jazz Festival as "the area's biggest jazz convocation." It's pretty clear that the Portland Jazz Festival is the biggest and most important jazz festival in the state - this year's lineup alone included Terence Blanchard, Joe Lovano, Dianne ...