News Summary

• Cassandra Wilson, one of the greatest jazz singers of her generation, has died.
• Nate Chinen is a music critic and the editorial director at the jazz- and classical-music-focused member station WRTI in Philadelphia.
• Chinen: "She really changed the idea of what a jazz vocalist can do and how they can do it" "She always resisted complacency.
• She was an artist who constantly pushed herself," Chinen says.
• "Last Train To Clarksville" was a signature hit for The Monkees.