Closer to you : the pop sides

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After her beginnings as a blues and folk song singer-guitarist in the 1970s, Cassandra Wilson turned to jazz, in New Orleans where she met Ellis Marsalis, then in New York where she performed with musicians from very diverse styles. Free from any confinement or labeling, she knows how to put her powerful voice, her energy and her rhythmic mastery at the service of genres that encompass both pop music and avant-garde explorations. “Closer to you” brings together Cassandra Wilson’s favorite “pop” songs, which she performs here with the strength and originality for which she is known. This new CD contains her fragile version of U2’s “Love Is Blindness,” as well as her transcendent cover of Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon,” which evokes fireflies and shooting stars, and a tender and romantic version of Sting’s song “Fragile”...