The Jazz icon adopt its minimalist unfortunately dull and lackluster.

Wilson's discography is impressive and some of their CDs from the 80 and especially from the 90ties, testify quite clear that it is one of the most important jazz artists of our time internationally. Wilson Although never one of my absolute jazz Lieblingsvokalistinnen - I dynamic voices with large bandwidth (eg, Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater) outside the unsurpassable Ella-Sarah-Billie-Carmen Clubs - prefer. Nevertheless, I have a vocal jazz fan almost all their CDs - and some Cassandra Wilson albums I love really my album favorites are Dance To The Drums (1992) and Blue Light 'Til Dawn (1993) This is music that I always can hear with joy.

The opposite of joy arises in me now a, after repeated listening to their latest CD. I am well informed by various end products to praise this album. Unfortunately, I always make more finds that the serious jazz press (Jazz Thing, Jazzthetik, less Jazzpodium) especially when dealing with their idea of ​​new jazz CDs and to icons that anyway worldwide selling well in the jazz terrain like Krall, Reeves or now Cassandra Wilson, - not always really treat the musical products critical enough. There are only "masterpieces" - it is advertised, there's no tomorrow. In large, multi-page articles is confirmed: Everything is just wonderful, unique, meaningful and important! Basically, gelobhudelt as the unspeakable, German Echo awards ceremony - but of course at a higher level! Critical notes are played in the jazz press barely. The best example: the last album of Diana Krall "Wallflower" - in which it the good pianist unfortunately all too often succeeds vocally let known pop songs seem even more trivial than the originals!

Music can only be judged subjectively - as seen is Coming Forth By Day with songs that mean to me invariably much - just a huge disappointment, and even more than that: Cassandra Wilson's new interpretation of Billie Holiday classics I feel as a failure because what I hear is a great shortcoming in the overall design of this fantastic, timeless exacting standards.

In song Good Morning Heartache Wilson can not even express believable something like real sadness, because her singing is so reduced and flatly that this kind of interpretation to me even uninvolved, almost apathetic acts.

Her voice was once full, dark, geheimnisvoll- on Coming Forth By Day has lost all of its earlier, special aura! The sound sensual charm of her voice on previous CDs from the 90s is swept away. It lacks power, heat and fervor. The Jazz Diva shows emphasized minimalistic: Here, the vocal sound of Wilson proves dull, dull dull, plain drab! Her voice sounded as if she were singing by tens of gauze.

There is also no vocal color changes - everything remains energized and inaccessible. Your tone scale is strong behavior, bloodless - knows only monotony, Leblosikeit. After a burst of virtuosity or commitment not found in these interpretations, as well as their textgezeugte phrasing sounds musically dimensional.

The way Cassandra Wilson sings on this album interpreted, leaves the impression of each of the songs only consists of three to five tones with me. So Wilson approaches the chanting. Most significant is the case You Go To My Head. A song that is sort of a dream of composition seems to have almost no melody at Wilson's lecture!

The arrangements do the rest - in many passages her voice becomes spongy shrouded and muffled by strings. I have no strings phobia how many jazz fans - but it has to fit. Thus at all is still a minimum of "vocal presence" perceptible, they put a lot of reverb on her voice - with George Michael likes the style principle Being at Cassandra Wilson with Billie Holiday standards a big mistake, the inappropriate, disturbing and disconcerting effect.

Incidentally, I have some of my fellow played jazz fans the CD and each was my assessment and big disappointment nachvollziehen.Es'm sorry that I "subjective" bring my horror at this Wilson album here with so much vehemence expressed - but the fans of this new Wilson album do this well on their way quite savvy. That's all okay. To each his own. Unfortunately I have after each song the impression that Mrs. Wilson is happy to have put it behind him. If ever a single song is halfway succeeded then The Way You Look Tonight.

Ultimately I can add to any understanding of my assessment only: I am every exaltation, exaggeration, mannerism, emotional devotion in jazz singing still better than these feeble-triste, stress-free way of track design.

I have just me worried another Holiday Tribute: the new José James CD - Yesterday I Had the Blues. A great singer, which unfortunately has not been the long-deserved popularity and appreciation of Gregory Porter. Although José James certainly presented on this CD not exorbitant vocal excursions - this album has everything that is lacking in Cassandra Wilson Album of intensity.