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Belly Of The Sun

With a voice as rich and caramel-y as Sarah Vaughan's, and a delivery as intimately conversational as Joni Mitchell's, Cassandra Wilson is the perfect jazz singer for people who don't particularly like jazz singing. She covers rock songs -- Belly of the Sun includes "Wichita Lineman" and "The...

2002 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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Cassandra Wilson began her career as a sullen jazz diva, a purveyor of dramatic, if relatively tradition-minded, takes on standards. Frustrated with the insularity of the jazz world, she abandoned that pedestal to investigate more earthy music, and in the '90s carved out her own genre -- dusty, blues-influenced songs of longing and woe backed by acoustic guitars and hand drums.

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