{"id":3443,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/cassandra-wilson-thunderbird\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"cassandra-wilson-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3443","title":{"rendered":"Cassandra Wilson &#8211; Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font- face:verdana; font- size:16px\"><strong>Thunderbird<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font- face:verdana; font- size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong>Cassandra Wilson<\/strong><\/font><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\" style=\"font- face:verdana; font- size:12px\"><br \/>(Blue Note &#8211; 2006)<br \/> by Carmen Miller<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font- face:verdana; font- size:14px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">Much like Lizz Wright, another vocalist known for her jazz licks, Cassandra Wilson makes a drastic change of direction with her new release <i>Thunderbird<\/i>. Those of you looking for the <i>usual Cassandra <\/i>can go elsewhere because this is more pop\/folk than jazz and, quite honestly, I had to play the whole CD just to see where it was going to go from one track to the next.  <\/p>\n<p>  Don&#8217;t get me wrong, Cassandra still has that beautiful, husky voice and her great sense of timing and delivery&#8230; it&#8217;s just that what&#8217;s being delivered is not really what I expected, or wanted, from Cassandra Wilson. There are some really soulful blues tunes (<i>It would be easy<\/i>, <i>I want to be loved<\/i>) and many other tracks that I&#8217;m hesitant to try and assign to particular genres&#8230; but I found none of the smooth and jazzy Cassandra I sought when I played the CD.<\/p>\n<p>  Blue Note teamed Cassandra up with &#8220;O Brother Where Art Thou?&#8221; producer <b>T Bone Burnett<\/b> who is reportedly responsible for this startling departure from the norm. All I could say after the second listening was <i>Oh JAZZ Where Art Thou!<\/i> The blue tracks are great and Cassandra is as soulful and rich and wonderful as ever but if I wanted Blues I&#8217;d listen to Etta james. If I wanted alternative, folksy music I&#8217;d listen to Tracy Chapman. I wanted jazz and I didn&#8217;t get it.<\/font>                          <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thunderbird Cassandra Wilson(Blue Note &#8211; 2006) by Carmen Miller Much<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}