Cassandra Wilson "New Moon Daughter" 2LP

Format: 2LP, reissue, remastered

Label: Blue Note

Released: 2015

Country: U.S.

Limited vinyl LP pressing of the jazz vocalist’s 1995 album, a Blue Note essential,”New Moon Daughter” by Cassandra Wilson is part of the Blue Note 75 anniversary LP reissue campaign

Her luscious alto has the depth and texture of a great tenor saxophonist, but Cassandra Wilson's defining asset is a post-modern song sense that enables her to surf through Son House, Neil Young, Johnny Mercer, Billie Holiday, and (gasp!) the Monkees in pursuit of strong songs that can provide that instrument with a canvas.

Her second Blue Note album extends Wilson's seductive pilgrimage beyond the conventions of jazz repertoire and accompaniment, yet it's her instincts as a jazz singer that inform these brilliant readings. The settings again step away from traditional small group jazz (for starters, there's no piano) to evoke the emotional core of these songs. Anyone who can turn the Monkees' "Last Train to Clarksville" into a slow-burning erotic vignette deserves your attention.

Tracklisting

1. Strange Fruit
2. Love Is Blindness
3. Solomon Sang
4. Death Letter
5. Skylark
6. Find Him
7. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
8. Last Train To Clarksville
9. Until
10. A Little Warm Death
11. Memphis
12. Harvest Moon
13. 32-20