Tag Archives: Cassandra Wilson
BLUE LIGHT | BLUE NOTE
When singer Cassandra Wilson arrived at Blue Note in 1993 she was already well over a decade into her career as a jazz-blues singer, highly respected but not particularly well known. Then something in the musical alchemy of artist, label/production and material made Blue Light ’Til Dawn a very special release that gained here world-wide […]
10 ALMANAC ENTRIES FROM 1955
Chuck Berry records his first single, “Maybelline”, for Chess Records in Chicago [May 21]. Despite the vitality of his early songs and his significance as a writer/performer, surprisingly few of his singles crossed over from the R&B charts to the upper echelons of the pop hit parade. * “Rock Around the Clock” becomes the first […]
