Nice to see Joni getting some attention for the influence of her guitar playing. This blurb is from the Feb 19, 2002, NYTimes review of Cassandra Wilson's show at the Blue Note jazz club:
The show came entirely from Ms. Wilson's forthcoming album on Blue Note records, "Belly of the Sun," to be released next month. The album continues to follow the form set by "Blue Light Till Dawn," the album that expanded her audience nearly a decade ago. "Blue Light" combined various tasteful elements in a precious but ingenious collection. Here the formula was little altered: slide guitar from the blues (played by Kevin Breit); acoustic fingerpicking harking back to Joni Mitchell's early progressive-harmony period (Marvin Sewell, who is the band's musical director); the swinging bass lines of jazz (Mark Peterson); the military bass drum and trianglelike pings of samba percussion (Cyro Baptista); the conga of Cuban music (Jeffrey Haynes). Debra Shea
