Tag: Nightbird

Twenty-five years ago, on 2 and 3 January 1996, the Eva Cassidy band performed two nights at Blues Alley, a jazz club in Georgetown DC. The album Nightbird (2015) contains the complete concert that the Eva Cassidy Band gave on the second evening. The musicians had played there before with …

Eva Cassidy fans ask us all kinds of questions. Sometimes they are difficult to answer. For example: “If I buy one Eva Cassidy album which one should I pick?” (It’s a matter of taste) Last week, however, we got a question that made us think long and deep: “How many …

“Eva Cassidy is one of the best Paul Simon interpreters,” says leading American music critic Geoffrey Himes after listening to her live album Nightbird. Eva Cassidy hadn’t finished her first solo studio album by the end of 1995. The lucky few who had heard her infrequent gigs, though, were clamoring …