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Known for smoke-ring phrasing and an ability to abstract any song (check her beautiful cover of Van Morrison's "Tupelo Honey"), Wilson stretches jazz standards into new shapes here. Pianist Jason Moran cuts melodies into neat jigsaw pieces, while Wilson wears the tunes like familiar clothes. Accesso...

2008 RS: 3.5of 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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