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Cassandra Wilson

  • 34 Women in Jazz – In Tribute to Billie

    Mar 30th, 2021 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Andy Bey, Cassandra Wilson, DeeDee Bridgewater, Jazzmeia Horn, Jose James, Mary Stallings

    DeeDee Bridgewater In 2015, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of Billie Holiday’s birth. In 2020, the documentary Billie was released and now the flawed biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday has come out. In the last several years, there have been significant tribute records by Dee Dee Bridgewater, Cassandra Wilson and José James. In […]

  • 32 Women in Jazz – Fabulous Singing, Part 1

    Mar 16th, 2021 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Binker Golding, Cassandra Wilson, Cyrus Chestnut, Houston Person, Josh Nelson, Karrin Allyson, Kate McGarry, Kurt Elling, Luciana Souza, Marco Pereira, Quiana Lynell, Ravi Coltrane, Sara Gazarek, Sinne Eeg, Teodross Avery, Tierney Sutton, Tiffany Austin, Zara McFarland

    Zara McFarland The past decade has been a great one for lovers of jazz singing with most of the exciting music coming from women singers. In this hour and the next of Jazz at 100 Today! we’ll survey 20 releases from 15 female vocalists who range from the rediscovered vintage jazz of Catherine Russell to […]

  • Hour 26 Saluting Harold Arlen

    Jan 26th, 2021 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Bobby McFerrin, Cassandra Wilson, Catherine Russell, Chick Corea, Dianne Reeves, Harold Arlen, Houston Person, Jane Ira Bloom, Joey Alexander, Johnny Mercer, Mary Stallings, Ted Koehler, Tierney Sutton, Truman Capote

    Cassandra Wilson Born Hyman Arluck on February 15, 1905, Harold Arlen was one of the most important composers of the Great American songbook. Arlen’s first collaboration with lyricist Ted Koehler, Get Happy, became his first hit in 1930 and ever since his tunes have been covered by jazz artists. In 2000, his collaboration with Yip […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 95: Highlights of Jazz in the Early 1990s (1987 – 1994)

    Jan 16th, 2019 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Cassandra Wilson, James Carter, Joe Lovano, Michael Brecker, Odean Pope, Saxophone Choir, Stan Getz, Steve Coleman

    Cassandra Wilson This is the 95th of 100 programs in the Jazz at 100 series. For 94 programs have moved on a roughly chronological path through the history of 100 years of jazz recordings, following trends, introducing major players and stylistic evolutions. As we approach the present, we face the historian’s dilemma – in more […]

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