Cassandra Wilson

Meet Cassandra Wilson—singer, songwriter, musician, and 2022 NEA Jazz Master Fellow. In this tuneful podcast, the Grammy Award winner takes us through her career in music, her influences, her approach to singing, how she works with other musicians, her ideas about songwriting, and the centrality of the blues and Mississippi’s rich musical heritage to her work. Wilson is as insightful as she is talented as she discusses the trajectory of her long and rich career.