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CASSANDRA WILSON "Thunderbird" Reviews
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AZRating: 8.0
Users rating: 9.0 |
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Release: 4 Apr 2006
Label: Blue Note Records
Genre: Jazz
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| Music Angle |
Rating: 9.1 |
As for Ms. Wilson's performance, she projects a dark, brooding, cool and commanding sensuality that demands your full attention. You'll comply willingly.
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| Popmatters |
Rating: 9.0 |
Thunderbird is the best work that Cassandra Wilson and T Bone Burnett have done in years. It is jam-packed with invention. It is something strange and something appealing—and something special.
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| Billboard |
Rating: 9.0 |
The emphasis placed on mood and tone comes at the expense of the vivid expressiveness of Wilson's best work.
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| Times Online |
Rating: 8.0 |
Anyone who thinks the blues is only for whiskery nostalgics should listen to her spine- tingling seven-minute version of Blind Lemon Jefferson's Easy Rider. An early contender for vocal album of the year.
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| Entertainment Weekly |
Rating: 6.7 |
Except the porous, dragging tunes on Thunderbird never quite amount to more than rumbling soundscapes.
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| All About Jazz |
Rating: 6.0 |
Thunderbird is not Cassandra Wilson's best album. However, she remains a unique voice in jazz and blues, persevering and continuing to surprise us with fresh ideas.
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