{"id":107036,"date":"2026-09-04T07:33:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T05:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/?p=107036"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T05:34:23","slug":"cassandra-wilson-1955-2026-in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/cassandra-wilson-1955-2026-in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassandra Wilson (1955-2026) In Memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107037\" title=\"Cassandra Wilson (1955-2026) In Memoriam Tomajazz 260901 Cssndr Wlsn \u00a9Joan Cort\u00e8s 08nvm2006 38FJBcn Pl\" src=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/260901-Cssndr-Wlsn-\u00a9Joan-Cortes-08nvm2006-38FJBcn-Pl.jpg\" alt=\"Cassandra Wilson (1955-2026) In Memoriam - Tomajazz\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/260901-Cssndr-Wlsn-\u00a9Joan-Cortes-08nvm2006-38FJBcn-Pl.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/260901-Cssndr-Wlsn-\u00a9Joan-Cortes-08nvm2006-38FJBcn-Pl-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/260901-Cssndr-Wlsn-\u00a9Joan-Cortes-08nvm2006-38FJBcn-Pl-367x550.jpg 367w, https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/260901-Cssndr-Wlsn-\u00a9Joan-Cortes-08nvm2006-38FJBcn-Pl-333x500.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Glenn O&#8217;Brien: Did you connect with jazz at a young age?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cassandra Wilson: I didn\u2019t know it to be jazz, I just knew it to be music. So when you use that word . . . Did I at five or six years old know that this was jazz? At that age I don\u2019t think I knew what the name of it was. But I knew that my daddy loved this music and I would sit and listen to it and play while he was listening. I was, you know, always at his feet, hanging out and doing the things that he enjoyed, finding pleasure in the things that he enjoyed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Cassandra Wilson In Memoriam<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bombmagazine.org\/articles\/1999\/04\/01\/cassandra-wilson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entrevista a Cassandra Wilson realizada por Glenn O&#8217;Brien en Bomb Magazine<\/a>. Fotograf\u00eda de Cassandra Wilson tomada por Joan Cort\u00e8s el\u00a008 de noviembre de 2006 en el\u00a038\u00e8 Festival de Jazz de Barcelona, en el\u00a0Palau de la M\u00fasica de Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Cita de entrevista: \u00a9 Bomb Magazine &#8211; Glenn O&#8217;Brien, 1999<br \/>\nFotograf\u00eda: \u00a9 Joan Cort\u00e8s,\u00a0 2026<\/p>\n<h3>M\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n sobre Cassandra Wilson<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cassandrawilson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cassandrawilson.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cassandra_Wilson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cassandra_Wilson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/?s=cassandra+wilson&amp;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/?s=cassandra+wilson&amp;submit=Search<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn O&#8217;Brien: Did you connect with jazz at a young age? Cassandra Wilson: I didn\u2019t know it to be jazz, I just knew it to be music. So when you use that word . . . Did I at five or six years old know that this was jazz? At<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/cassandra-wilson-1955-2026-in-memoriam\/\">Contin\u00faa leyendo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31927,17853,15517,1038],"tags":[5017,1041],"class_list":["entry","author-pachi","post-107036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-in-memoriam","category-joan-cortes","category-textos","category-contenidos","tag-cassandra-wilson","tag-joan-cortes"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":92964,"url":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/martial-solal-1927-2024-in-memoriam\/","url_meta":{"origin":107036,"position":0},"title":"Martial Solal (1927-2024) In Memoriam","author":"Tomajazz","date":"13 diciembre, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Martial Solal fallec\u00eda el 12 de diciembre de 2024. 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