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Rendezvous
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724385548420
Label: Blue Note Records
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Blue Note Records
Release Date: September 23, 1997
Studio: Blue Note Records
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Editorial Review:
Throughout Cassandra Wilson's career, jazz critics have been presuming to tell her what to do. Instead, she maintains her own impressive balance among jazz standards, other popular songs, and originals, and among a "jazz" approach, a guitar-based country blues spareness, and art-pop inspired by one of her greatest influences, Joni Mitchell. Here she reminds us that she can bring tremendous freshness to standards. Star pianist Jacky Terrasson makes it almost easy for her. His standout contribution, though, is a tinkling, decidedly late-autumnal solo "Autumn Leaves." Bassist Lonnie Plaxico and percussionist Mino Cinelu contribute impressively on a trap-setless disc, on such numbers as a sad-soul "Tea for Two," and a slowed, bluesy rendition of "Tennessee Waltz." --Peter Monaghan
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Yes, It Is Beautiful!
Originally at first listen I was going to give this a four-star rating, but after a careful consideration and repeated listening, I believe it is a conclusive five-star-affair.
Blue Note Records has the reputation of producing high quality and reliable jazz recordings. This album was recorded under Blue Note. Therefore, this is a high quality and reliable recording. You can't go wrong with Cassandra Wilson and Jacky Terrasson's "Rendezvous" - the material is quite notable and the sound ... Read More
Rating: - This is Fabulous!
Cassandra Wilson's voice and phrasing are as interesting and lovely as ever. The surprise is the interplay between instrument and vocals - the subtle conversation between the players. These are great muscians making music together. Don't buy this if you want to swing - buy it if you are going to sit and listen to what they are saying. This is one of my favorite all time CDs. The instrumentation is gorgeous.
Rating:  - Rhythm-less, slow, dull
I have just been listening to this album in a shuffle play with songs by Sarah Vaughan, Karrin Allyson and Johnny Hartman. Cassandra Wilson's performances are so much duller, slower and less alive than the other three that I keep skipping to the end of her songs when they come on.
I am a tenor myself, and I find it strange that Wilson is singing in my range, but I would never sing these songs the way she sings them. They don't swing.
I bought this album originally because ... Read More
Rating: - A Neglected Gem
Have you ever had the experience where you've listened or read something and liked it, then put it down and didn't pick it up until years later, and then you really dug it?
I had that experience last year with Shirley Horn's 1992 "Here's to Life". And this year, I'm having that experience with 1997's "Rendezvous", a brilliant, creative work by the French pianist, Jacky Terrasson, and the world-class jazz singer, Cassandra Wilson.
This album is about standards, done in truly ... Read More
Rating:  - Female tenor with attitude.
There's more jazz on this album than on "New Moon Daughter," but Wilson still favors a studied, theatrical approach to the music. Whereas on the former album she goes out of her way to select non-standard instrumentation and genres, on "Rendezvous" she's less eclectic but no less iconoclastic in her approach to the material. She's a striking presence, and she uses her tenor-baritone range to create an aura, a spell, a dramatic image.
The main lineage of jazz singers--Billie, Ella, Sarah, Carmen, ... Read More
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