Cassandra Wilson Tickets

International River Jazz! Customized with Ralphe Armstrongs electrical boss/bass. Team of dreams band with awesome electric violinist, piano chops, horns blaring. Very nicely. Tribute to Ed ❤️ Love. Beautiful. Cassandra 💐 Wilson. Adorned the stage with 'Blue Skies' all around her. Made a comfortable setting with sultry, sensuous melodies. Especially ' You move me'. Made my concert smile. Finger snaps and foot taps. Big band seasoned well done.

International River Jazz! Customized with Ralphe Armstrongs electrical boss/bass. Team of dreams band with awesome electric violinist, piano chops, horns blaring. Very nicely. Tribute to Ed ❤️ Love. Beautiful. Cassandra 💐 Wilson. Adorned the stage with 'Blue Skies' all around her. Made a comfortable setting with sultry, sensuous melodies. Especially ' You move me'. Made my concert smile. Finger snaps and foot taps. Big band seasoned well done.

International River Jazz! Customized with Ralphe Armstrongs electrical boss/bass. Team of dreams band with awesome electric violinist, piano chops, horns blaring. Very nicely. Tribute to Ed ❤️ Love. Beautiful. Cassandra 💐 Wilson. Adorned the stage with 'Blue Skies' all around her. Made a comfortable setting with sultry, sensuous melodies. Especially ' You move me'. Made my concert smile. Finger snaps and foot taps. Big band seasoned well done.

The venue was so cool, right on the river. Cassandra Wilson was tremendous; the opening acts were both excellent.

The setting was beautiful for such a dynamic performer! Jazz in the D

amazing, emotionally beautiful...maybe too short!!!

This is my first time at a Cassandra Wilson concert, I have heard a lot about her over the years. I did not always enjoy Ms. Wilson's approach to jazz. However, I respect what she accomplished. She is an interpretive musician and the pieces she performed were sometimes unrecognizable from the original. I did find her angry and aggressive version of "Strange Fruit" very appropriate and relevant to current events. I will purchase her album of Billie Holiday covers and take more time to understand her approach. I will attempt to see her again to hear more of her capabilities.

I enjoyed Cassandra Wilson. But 3 star... average. There was a certain sameness to her material. All slow, sultry, soulful. Nothing upbeat (with the exception of Strange Fruit, which was very moving and exciting). This is what she is known for, and what I expected - but, to a point. It was a lot of similar sounds. And the concert was short. After dropping $90 per tix I was disappointed that the show was under an hour with no intermission. Cassandra's range, while never broad, seems to be contracting with time, raspier and deeper. Maybe too close a Billie Holiday analogy? If she needed a rest - and she did - a purely instrumental number by the superb band would have been a better fix. I was disappointed by the venue. There was poor crowd management before the show. The ushers were more officious than helpful. The balance of the instruments was uneven to be annoying: the electronic musicians were too prominent, the bass was WAAY too loud, the guitar too loud; and the acoustic instruments: piano, winds, and backup strings too soft. Too bad, because her band is top. Wilson had trouble with both her floor mic (kept on slipping) and her pick up mic (requiring a wardrobe correction). In either (or both) cases she was too closely miced and unbalanced with the instrumentalists. The parties both to our left and to our right left early. While that did not affect me directly, it was telling to me that my opinion was not unique. Good... but could have been much better. I don't plan on seeing her live again, and I will be slow to see another concert at the Apollo

pretty disappointed - we were 8 people paying over $100/ ticket & Cassandra Wilson was overwhelmed by a 16 piece band!! her voice is a spectacular gift & we did not hear it except when she sang a song only with her pianist. also strange fruit encore was pretty good but would have been more powerful with onlly her voice!!! what else can I say ?

The Apollo Theatre is an iconic venue, but the acoustics there are not so great. I love Cassandra Wilson and I love the music of Billie Holiday, so I was so excited for this show. Sadly, I was terribly disappointed. I thought Cassandra phoned in the performance. She sang six songs and an encore and was very difficult to understand because of either her diction and/or the acoustics. The band was terrific and probably jammed and played more than Cassandra sang. At one point, she ran off the stage abruptly. It must not have been a good night for her. The total concert was under 90 minutes and to me, that is just short changing the audience. Tony Bennett sings over twenty songs in his concerts and he is twice Cassandra's age. I do not recommend seeing her in concert.