Cassandra Wilson – New Moon Daughter (1995/2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Cassandra Wilson – New Moon Daughter (1995/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:12 minutes | 2,41 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

New Moon Daughter is one of Cassandra Wilson’s most-beloved albums, released in 1995 on Blue Note. It reached #1 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart in 1996. Critics noted that the New Moon Daughter, although quite similar to Wilson’s previous album (Blue Light ‘Til Dawn), was darker in feeling and had some very striking, intense performances. Notable tracks include Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”, “Skylark”, and “Last Train to Clarksville”.

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Cassandra Wilson – Glamoured (2003) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Cassandra Wilson – Glamoured (2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:30 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

Cassandra Wilson has garnered a deserving reputation for her soulful, visionary reads of songs by legendary composers old and new, from Robert Johnson to Van Morrison. On Glamoured, Wilson composed half the album, and her songs are as provocative and deserve the same weight of grace critically afforded her covers. She uses her trademark fluid, smoky delivery to redefine songs such as the old soul nugget “If Loving You Is Wrong”; the poignancy it was written with tells of a woman lost in the delirium of a forbidden love with a married man. The ache and euphoria in her voice shot through with producer Fabrizio Sotti’s stunning acoustic guitar interplay is nearly overwhelming in its emotion. Her Afro-Caribbean read of Bob Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay” is a different – and perhaps better – version than the original. It doesn’t weep and it doesn’t get bogged down in its melody; it is shot through with a smoldering drone and eclectic polyrhythms that reinvent it harmonically. Willie Nelson’s “Crazy” is kissed with the same elegance and soul that her version of “Tupelo Honey” was. But it is on Muddy Waters’ “Honey Bee” and Abbey Lincoln’s “Throw It Away,” which closes the album, that Wilson offers her greatest gift: that of an improvisational blues and jazz singer who understands these songs to be living embodiments of still developing traditions. Recorded in Jackson, MS, her hometown, these songs are shot through with mischief; a controlled, winking sensuality; greasy, rollicking, and syncopated rhythms; and melody lines to kill for. Wilson’s songs, particularly “I Want More” and “What Is It?” with their funky backbeats and jagged verses, are seemingly new forms for the pop song, while “Broken Drum,” “Sleight of Time,” and “Heaven Knows” could have been written for Nina Simone, such are their out-of-the-ages, folk-infused jazzy cadences, but Wilson makes them unclassifiable in terms of any time but the present and she is working out new forms for color, phrasing, and rhythmic interplay for her voice. Glamoured, like its Gaelic definition, is the sound of the supernatural in a human being. AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek

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Cassandra Wilson – Coming Forth by Day (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Cassandra Wilson – Coming Forth by Day (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:15 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

A musical homage to legendary jazz vocalist Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915) on the 100th anniversary of the singer’s birth, Coming Forth By Day is Cassandra Wilson’s moody, soulful showcase for contemporary yet timeless interpretations of standards associated with Lady Day. Coming Forth By Day was produced by Nick Launay, known as Nick Cave’s producer for the last decade among many other adventurous credits.

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Cassandra Wilson – Another Country (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Cassandra Wilson – Another Country (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:06 minutes | 919 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © eOne Music

Chart History/Awards
– Reached #2 on Billboard’s Top Jazz Albums.
– Kentucky’s Lex-Go Critics’ Pick

Another Country, released on eOne, is the latest recording from celebrated vocalist, Cassandra Wilson. Wilson, with a million Soundscan albums to her credit, has built an impressive resume that includes two GRAMMY® Awards, an Echo Jazz Award, The Miles Davis Prize and a BET Soul Train Award. Time magazine declared her “America’s Best Singer” in 2001. On Another Country, Wilson collaborates with longtime friend and jazz guitarist/producer Fabrizio Sotti. Her sensational vocals are matched by Sotti’s expressive acoustic guitar. This exquisite outing finds Wilson journeying into a new musical direction. Nine of the ten tracks were composed by the pair. This compelling listen opens with the jazz-blues number “Red Guitar” and sails to the engaging “Passion.” Another Country is poised to exhilarate Wilson’s loyal following and introduce her to a new audience.

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