Billie Holiday for the hundredth!

Exactly the hundredth birthday of Billie Holiday appears Cassandra Wilson CD Coming Forth by Day. Of course this is no coincidence, but the proof of the confidence Cassandra Wilson. Due to their Vita as her voice Billie Holiday's legend. You, who already as a child growing up in a brothel in Baltimore and had experienced everything the man has feelings and Chakterspektrum came to Harlem and became a founding myth of the contemporary American jazz. There were still others, like Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan, but not, to date, no singer of jazz could use her voice so as Billie Holiday. Lady Day, as saxophonist Lester Young and tragic lovers she called, her voice instrumented, they used them as a solo instrument and revolutionized the singing. It was only her. But they already succumbed at the age of 44 years the economy of the former Jazz and the heroin.

Cassandra Wilson, the one that was in the jazz of our day early as a great talent and great albums have received is not the same as said Billie Holiday. She convinced by their sonorous, always relaxed expression that could dare to everything was to exacting standards as a major challenge. Cassandra Wilson, the designer who grew up on the Mississippi River, has its roots not in the urban jazz, but in the rural blues. That comes through over and that is is their great asset. It leads the Jazz emotional kept coming back to his roots and brings him to rest, while Billie Holiday brought him to the metropolis and again helped him there on the jumps.

Perhaps Coming Forth by Day attempt Cassandra Wilson to bring the jazz of Billie Holiday home in the arms of the Blues, who soothes him and bring peace. The way how they interpreted the rehearsed pieces, speaks for it. Billie's Blues, already from the title an indication is so arranged that the restlessness of the metropolis can be felt in the background while Cassandra Wilson's voice, completely unexcited, the cause of the Blues outlines and pacified the whole order. Good Morning Heartache, also a classic from Holidays repertoire loses everything the urban rhythm at Holiday accounted for without it acts more slowly. However, the clever combination of Wilson's voice and a bass clarinet create a different atmosphere than the original.

However, the most dangerous task is the interpretation of Strange Fruit. If there should be a song Billie Holiday, who was to take the stage of human existence, this is it. The report on the Assassination of blacks in the American South produced the original a gruesome showers and leaves deep sorrow. Cassandra Wilson has the makings of this interpretation. And her voice manages a fascinating story, but it was dramatically ill-advised to work with a targeted on Drama Filmorchestrierung. This creates a triviality that destroys the piece.

Total Coming Forth by Day is a great tribute to a singer still not reached voice of Jazz. Cassandra Wilson has a great voice, the idea to bring the Jazz home in the blues is awesome in terms of Billie Holiday, the choice of so many orchestration and access to strings in one or the other case deprive the pieces of their possible authenticity ,