Cassandra Wilson - Sowing New Seeds
Thursday, March 26, 2015
For all of the welcoming warmth of her instantly recognisable voice, Cassandra Wilson has never taken the safe option in a career that now spans almost three decades.
From her key phase with New York’s M-Base collective in the 1980s, she’s journeyed far and wide through jazz, popular song, country and soul. Yet, as she tells Stuart Nicholson, taking on the musical and personal legacy of Billie Holiday on Coming Forth By Day, her salute to the great singer’s centenary, required an aptly fearless approach to capture the true spirit of this most iconic of jazz singers
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