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Wilson established a reputation as a comer on her 1988 album Blue Skies, in which she stunningly reinterpreted such standards as Shall We Dance and I've Grown Accustomed to His Face. Ever since, critical accolades have been rolling in. Recently, Billboard crowned her "heir apparent to divas Betty Carter, Carmen McRae, Abbey Lincoln and Sarah Vaughan." Critics aside, top jazz performers want to work with her. Wilson is the featured vocalist in Blood on the Fields, a new big-band piece written by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that can be heard on National Public Radio this week...
...take the occasion to ask ourselves, again, why we went to war, why we lost, what it was we lost. The rise of free-market economics here makes that question especially slippery. When Saigon seems just as it was before the fall, just as boisterous and kitschy, when a billboard at Hanoi airport advertises VIETNAMERICA EXPO '94, it is easy to conclude that the war in Vietnam must have been the ultimate adventure in futility. Like many easy conclusions, this one bears further examination...
...Billboard Pop Memories, 1920-1950s, Vols...
...therecording industry's re-release standard-bearer,Rhino Records, offer up just what we have come toexpect from Rhino: intelligently structured andselected compilations that highlight an aspect ofAmerican music that has often not been addressedon its own. While the Rock InstrumentalClassics volumes are more satisfying than anyof the Billboard Pop Memories, both arestrong sets that will please anyone who wouldconsider buying them anyway...
...volume "Billboard Pop Memories" is thebrainchild of world-renowned record researcherJoel Whitborn, and it is hard to argue with eitherthe song selections or the track-by-trackdescriptions of their place in the history ofmodern music. Every track on here is a classic,and most for good reasons, and there are those ofus who genuinely treasure having Judy Garland's"somewhere Over the Rainbow," Duke Ellington's"Mood Indigo," and Dean Martin's "Memories AreMade of This" on one collection...