Strange Fruit (Cassandra Wilson)

Cassandra Wilson · 1995 · Version de l'ouverture de New Moon Daughter, après Billie Holiday

Context

Opener of New Moon Daughter, 5 min 33 long. She covers the song by Lewis Allan, which Billie Holiday had recorded in 1939, with Chris Whitley's resonator guitar.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Neoclassicism, Young Lions. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Love Is Blindness (1995)
• Death Letter (1995)
• Last Train to Clarksville (1995)
• Harvest Moon (1995)
• Hellhound on My Trail (1993)
• Come On in My Kitchen (1993)

Sources

• EN: New Moon Daughter

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