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CASSANDRA WILSON - LOVERLY (LP)

Cassandra Wilson Loverly On Vinyl LP

On her 2006 Blue Note recording Thunderbird, vocalist Cassandra Wilson explored the outer reaches of jazz with a multilayered sonic approach piloted by pop producer T Bone Burnett and supported by his A-team of studio musicians including guitarist Marc Ribot and drummer Jim Keltner. This time, Wilson ventures into another fascinating direction with Loverly, a tantalizing, rhythmically driven collection of jazz standards given new luster with a top-drawer band of friends that includes Marvin Sewell on guitar, Jason Moran on piano, Herlin Riley on drums, Lekan Babalola on percussion and Lonnie Plaxico on bass.

“I wanted to work with spare arrangements this time,” says Wilson of Loverly, her first full album of standards since her 1988 JMT album Blue Skies. “And I decided to dig back into standards with a small, compact group of musicians. I don’t record the typical jazz standards a lot, but I love them and that’s how I honed my craft. I studied the standards, listening to how other singers put their swing into them. But it’s hard to do standards. You can’t really sing them until you understand them.”

Loverly tracks include "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most,"  “Caravan,” “Gone With the Wind,” “Black Orpheus,” “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly,” “Till There Was You,” “A Sleeping Bee,” “The Very Thought of You” and “St. James Infirmary.” Plus, Wilson and company conjure up a joint original, the grooved “Arere.” 

Cassandra Wilson Loverly Track Listing

1.  Lover Come Back to Me 
2.  Black Orpheus 
3.  Wouldn’t It Be Loverly 
4.  Gone with the Wind 
5.  Caravan 
6.  Till There Was You 
7.  Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most 
8.  Arere 
9.  St. James Infirmary 
10.  Dust My Broom 
11.  The Very Thought of You 
12.  A Sleepin’ Bee