Tropical Breeze gives today’s listeners an opportunity to hear singer Cassandra Wilson at the beginning of her career, six years before her first album as a leader. Born in Jackson, Mississippi, she began working as a professional singer in the mid-1970s. 1980’’s Tropical Breeze features Cassandra Wilson when she was 24 and a talented unknown. She interacts with a Brazilian-oriented group led by harpist Patrice Fisher and also including violinist Sun Kim, Kent Jordan on flute, bassist Jim Markway, drummer James Black and percussionist Mark Sanders This is a real collector’s item, one that few of Cassandra Wilson’s many fans know about.