The Grammy Award-winning jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi makes her Koerner Hall debut with an all-star band including Canadian guitar hero Kevin Breit and world-renowned harmonica virtuoso Grégoire Maret.
Critic Gary Giddins described Ms. Wilson as “a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack who has expanded the playing field” by incorporating blues, country, and folk music into her work. Her honors and awards include two Grammy Awards, the Django d'Or Award, the Edison Award, and a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. Ms. Wilson also performed in one of the leading roles for Wynton Marsalis’s Blood on the Fields, the first jazz album to receive a Pulitzer Prize. In 2022, she was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship and was named an NEA Jazz Master alongside Stanley Clarke, Billy Hart, and Donald Harrison.
Wilson’s tour celebrates the 30th anniversary of her release New Moon Daughter, which artfully blended jazz and Americana, and catapulted her to a new echelon of fame in the jazz world – hitting #1 on the Billboard Jazz Chart, and earning her a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance. Her Koerner Hall performance features four of the musicians who joined Wilson for the New Moon Daughter recording: Kevin Breit, Brandon Ross, Lonnie Plaxico and Jeffrey Haynes. With the release of her second Blue Note album, Wilson was being hailed as the new empress of jazz singers, mentioned in the same breath as such iconic vocalists as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Betty Carter.
After the concert, enjoy a beverage and more music at the Postlude Performance in the Leslie & Anna Dan Galleria.
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