What Jazz Musician Won a Grammy in 1996 for Her Album New Moon Daughter?

Cassandra Wilson, a jazz performer, won a Grammy in 1996 for her album "New Moon Daughter."

Technically, Cassandra Wilson is not strictly a jazz musician in the purest sense of the word. She is considered to be in the jazz genre, although her music often crosses the line between pop and jazz, and she has been known to cover bands as musically diverse and far reaching as the Monkees and U2. 

She is often described as being musically similar to Joni Mitchell, and she is also known for her 1993 album “Blue Light ‘Til Dawn.”

Since Cassanda Wilson won a Grammy in 1996 for her album New Moon Daughter, Cassandra continues to write and perform music with her acoustic guitar today.

Jazz Music in America

Cassandra Wilson is part of a long line of jazz greats. American jazz music has a long and varied history that can be traced all the way back to the 1920s, when African American rhythms and brass instrumentation combined to take the United States by storm and to provide the soundtrack for the “Roaring Twenties” and well into the 1940s. 

Jazz music declined in popularity with the increase in rock and roll and country music, but it continues to be popular, and a number of American jazz musicians continue to make music in the tradition of the 1920s. One of these artists is Cassandra Wilson.