★★★★★
Grammy-winning vocalist Cassandra Wilson has always been an elusive butterfly, stylistically speaking. She first made a mark in the avant-garde jazz scene as a founding member of the famed M-Base collective, prior to breaking big in the '90s as a sensual-voiced solo artist. There's certainly nothing avant-garde about Another Country, but it's an accomplished, sweetly melodic work...
- exclaim.ca
2012-08-09
★★★★★
The country referred to in the title of vocalist 's 18th album is, presumably, Italy. The set was recorded over 10 days in Florence, and finds Mississippi's favourite daughter sharing writing and recording duties with Italian guitarist Fabrizio Sotti, who worked with her on 2003's Glamoured. You can hear the Mediterranean influence throughout - and not just in Wilson's laidback version of the famous Neapolitan ballad, 'O Sole Mio...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Cassandra Wilson has never been one for grandeur or flash, but even by her restrained standards Another Country is a remarkably subdued affair, rather like 40 minutes of soft, reinvigorating rain...
- jazztimes.com
2012-07-19
★★★★★
With her Nina Simone-like low register and supple phrasing, charismatic Grammy-winning vocalist Cassandra Wilson could endlessly recycle her successful acoustic folk-blues repertoire. But with 2010's Silver Pony, and this similarly eclectic set made with the Italian guitarist and producer Fabrizio Sotti, she has revealed an eagerness to spread her wings...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-07-19
★★★★★
Referring to Cassandra Wilson as simply 'a jazz vocalist' is akin to categorizing Quincy Jones as a just 'a producer': technically, both terms fit, but they also simultaneously water down the performers' versatilities and the levels of virtuousity that they've achieved after decades of proving themselves capable of delivering much, much more. In the case of Ms...
- www.soultracks.com
2012-07-02
★★★★★
New Orleans-based jazz diva Cassandra Wilson checked her ego at the door and allowed her crack studio band to run away with this record, giving them ample room to breathe, including Ravi Coltrane on tenor sax and John Legend on piano...
- www.hour.ca
2011-02-19
★★★★★
These are tough times for jazz vocalists. Most have recorded all the life out of the American Songbook repertoire, beating standards into an early death. Yet, recordings of standards by jazz singers keep coming out and coming out, and coming out. Thank goodness there are a few vocalists, like Norma Winstone, who have uncompromising taste and are willing to step out on a ledge, usually with great results. Cassandra Wilson has always been one of these kinds of jazz singers...
- www.jazzreview.com
2011-02-14
★★★★★
Track Listing: Lover Come Back To Me; Went Down to St. James Infirmary; A Night in Seville; Beneath A Silver Moon; Saddle Up My Pony; If It's Magic; Forty Days and Forty Nights; Silver Moon; A Day in the Life of a Fool; Blackbird; Watch the Sunrise. Personnel: Marvin Sewell: guitars; Reginald Veal: bass; Herlin Riley: drums; Jonathan Batiste: keyboards; Lekan Babalola: percussion; Ravi Coltrane: tenor sax; Helen Gillet: cello; Luke Laird: acoustic guitar; Brandon Ross: acoustic guitar...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2011-01-17
★★★★★
The central conceit of jazz singer Cassandra Wilson's work -- that rural blues, brassy uptown standards and early folk-rock can share a common space --- marries the ambition of 1970s fusion with the coffeehouse comfort of the last decade. With a sensual ease unique in jazz and folk, Wilson's latest album, a half live/half studio disc, adds New Orleans funk to her mixture, landing herself further in a '70s milieu, one inhabited by Little Feat and the Meters...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
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