Cassandra Wilson News

The Kimmel Center's Jazz Up Close Series during the 2008-09 season celebrates the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis' quintessential jazz album, Kind of Blue, with five concerts paying tribute to the men who made ...

To borrow a phrase, the cat is out of the bag. George Colligan has been said to be one of the best kept secrets in jazz.

The award winning concert series CREATIVE DIFFERENCES returns with its Fall season next week.

Singer Nancy Wilson, a NEA Jazz Master, will pay tribute to an old bandmate, saxophonist Cannonball Adderly, Saturday night at the Monterey Jazz Festival.

Christian McBride had been waiting a long time for the moment to arrive. When it finally did, the bassist couldn't hold back his enthusiasm.

Music critics around the world agree: Charmaine Clamor [pronounced clah-MORE] has an unmistakably sultry, soulful, and seductive quality.

In 1964, the call went out, from coast to coast of this great nation, to avoid the alternatives of Lyndon Johnson or Barry Goldwater by supporting the great trumpet player's candidacy for the highest office in ...

For a half-century, the Monterey Jazz Festival has been the genre's gold standard.

"Across the Crystal Sea" Over the past 20 years, jazz pianist Danilo Perez has earned acclaim for his rhythmic daring and rigorously playful take on improvisation.

Pianist/Composer George Colligan will be performing with his Trio at Smalls in NYC on September 24th, 2008.

The 51st annual Monterey Jazz Festival is around the corner. Happening Sept. 19-21 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, it remains one of the cornerstone events in the jazz world, anywhere.

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 ...

Morrison inhabits a stage like it's her living room, with each audience member a bosom buddy.

Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista is one of the great sidemen currently active, a musician whose resourcefulness can enrich and enliven almost any music, with projects from Cassandra Wilson to John Zorn.

There's nothing standard about the way Cassandra Wilson went about making her first album of standards in nearly a decade.

Join Maggie LePique this Monday for another very special edition of the "Global Village" as she welcomes back to the KPFK airwaves Tim Jackson General Manager of the Monterey Jazz Festival to talk about the ...

TITLE: "Loverly" ARTIST: Cassandra Wilson STARS: 4 1/2 Out of 5 Stars SOUNDS LIKE: American songbook standards filtered through Wilson's deep husky vocals and sparse instrumentation.

The music of Carlos Jobim, James Taylor and Bob Dylan showed up on singer Cassandra Wilson's last album, Belly of the Sun - a broader repertoire that has set her remarkable, cello-toned voice new challenges.

Cassandra Wilson performs songs in such an individual manner, she nearly creates a new genre for them.

Blue Note Records When Cassandra Wilson played New York's Blue Note Jun. 9th, she let her band jam a long time before she stepped into the heavy mix of groove and musical jest among the instrumentalists.