Grammy winner Cassandra Wilson is considered the best jazz singer of her generation. Always busy with innovation within the genre by constantly pushing the boundaries. This is also the case with Silver Pony, a collection of live recordings and studio work in which her backing band is given ample opportunity to show themselves from a particularly profound side. The original idea behind Silver Pony
… was to use parts of the live shows as a basis for further development in the studio. For example, A Night In Sevilla, which is based on a twenty-minute intro to Wilson's version of Caravan, as her band played in Seville. She showed this again to her band who then started improvising, this again provided direct inspiration for Wilson who wrote Beneath A Silver Moon on it. Both pieces flow seamlessly. Furthermore, Silver Pony contains the usual sea of surprises that characterize all Wilson CDs. Even if she performs the most tired songs from The Great American Songbook. (AD)more
