Traveling Miles (1999) ( )

Artist: Cassandra Wilson
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Label: Emd/blue Note
UPC: 00724385412325
Release Date: 3/23/1999
Buy.com Sku: 60296036
Item#: MX7KYQ
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Run The Voodoo Down ~ Cassandra Wilson
2. Traveling Miles ~ Cassandra Wilson
3. Right Here, Right Now ~ Cassandra Wilson
4. Time After Time ~ Cassandra Wilson
5. When The Sun Goes Down ~ Cassandra Wilson
6. Seven Steps ~ Cassandra Wilson
7. Someday My Prince Will Come ~ Cassandra Wilson
8. Never Broken (ESP) ~ Cassandra Wilson
9. Resurrection Blues (Tutu) ~ Cassandra Wilson
10. Sky And Sea (Blue And Green) ~ Cassandra Wilson
11. Piper ~ Cassandra Wilson
12. Voodoo Reprise ~ Cassandra Wilson


(C) Blue Note

 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Personnel: Cassandra Wilson (vocals, acoustic guitar); Angelique Kidjo (vocals); Steve Coleman (alto saxophone); Olu Dara (cornet); Vincent Henry (harmonica); Regina Carter (violin); Stefon Harris (vibraphone); Cecilia Smith (marimba); Eric Lewis (piano); Kevin Breit (acoustic, electric, resophonic & e-bow guitars, electric mandolin, mandocello, bazouki); Marvin Sewell (acoustic, classical & electric guitars, bazouki); Doug Wamble (acoustic guitar); Pat Metheny (classical guitar); Dave Holland, Lonnie Plaxico (acoustic bass); Marcus Baylor (drums, percussion); Perry Wilson (drums); Jeffrey Haynes, Mino Cinelu (percussion).
Recorded at The Hit Factory, New York, New York in December 1997 and Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, New York in May and September 1998.
TRAVELING MILES was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance.
Throughout the '90s the smoky-voiced contralto Cassandra Wilson has shunned piano accompaniment in favor of close-miked acoustic guitars, evoking a moodily sensual atmosphere in which pop, blues, country and straight jazz vocals all merge together. It helps that Wilson has a distinctly Southern blues cast to her singing, a quality immediately apparent on "Run The Voodoo Down," the funky opener to TRAVELING MILES, her impeccably self-produced homage to Miles Davis.
As is her wont, Wilson has chosen to mix it up on this tribute, setting lyrics to Davis compositions such as "Blue In Green," "Tutu" and "ESP" while reprising two favorite Miles covers, "Someday My Prince Will Come" and Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time." The singer also contributes some of her own welcome originals such as the poppish "Right Here, Right Now," which itself sounds like a tribute to Joni Mitchell, another mentor-spirit hovering over the proceedings. The set closes with a playful reprise of "Voodoo," featuring a sisterly duet with African singer Angelique Kidjo, who sounds right at home.

 
Artist Overview
Like many jazz musicians before her, Mississippi-born vocalist/songwriter Cassandra Wilson moved to New York City in pursuit of both the muse and a musical career. In the mid-1980s she fell in with Steve Coleman's progressive-jazz collective M-Base, singing on records by Coleman and others, who in turn worked with her on her early solo recordings. During this time, she incorporated jazz, R&B, and world music influences into her sound, performing both standards and her own material. Though this endeared her to the jazz world, Wilson broke through to the mainstream in the mid-'90s by reinventing material from the pop/rock and blues worlds in her own distinctive style, with unconventional (for jazz) approaches to instrumentation and production.

Artist Influences
Abbey Lincoln | Aretha Franklin | Betty Carter | Billie Holiday | Bob Dylan | Carmen McRae | Ella Fitzgerald | Joni Mitchell | Miles Davis | Nancy Wilson (Jazz) | Nina Simone | Robert Johnson (Mississippi) | Sarah Vaughan | Shirley Horn | Sting

Artist Contemporaries
Diana Krall | Dianne Reeves | Dominique Eade | Graham Haynes | Greg Osby | Holly Cole | James Carter (Jazz) | Jean-Paul Bourelly | Kurt Elling | Lonnie Plaxico | Mulgrew Miller | Patricia Barber | Rachelle Ferrell | Regina Carter | Tuck & Patti

Artist Followers
Anne Donohue | Dave's True Story | Diane Hubka | India.Arie | Jane Monheit | Juliet Kelly | Luciana Souza | Norah Jones | Tierney Sutton


 

Compilation Appearances
Fine Romance-Songbook
Rodgers & Hart Songbook
Jazz To The World
Complete Rodgers & Hart Songbo
Jazz Central Station
Divine Divas-A World Of Women
Messenger
I Know
Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil
Future Jazz
Sweetest Punch (Songs Of Costello & Bacharach)
Best Blue Note Album In The Wo
Night Out With Verve
Ken Burns Jazz-Story Of America
Let's Get Lost
Jazz Chillout
Brown Sugar
Lady Sings The Blues
Martin Scorsese Presents: The Best Of The Blues
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey
I Heard It On Npr: jazz For Blue Night
I Heard It On Npr: at Home In The Worl
Pure Moods-Celestial Celebration
Blue Note Plays The Beatles
Lady Sings The Blues 2
Blue Note Plays Jobim
Blue Note Plays Sting
Best Smooth Jazz Ever
Dance Of The Infidels
Lost And Found
Higher Ground Hurricane Benefit Relief Concert
Blue Note Trip 2 (Hol)
Jazz Vocalists: Hear & Now
Renaissance Presents 3D (Eng)
A Tribute To Joni Mitchell
Sacred Ground
Jazz Divas Gold
My Blueberry Nights
Crossing Jordan (ost)
Justin Time 25Th Anniversary Collecti
Women Of Jazz

 
Associated Artists and Works
Air (Jazz)
Coleman, Steve
Sacred Ground ~ Murray, David (Jazz)
Sacred Ground ~ Murray, David (sax)
Rendezvous ~ Terrasson, Jacky
Terrasson, Jacky

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 03/23/1999
Original Release Date : 1999
Catalog ID : 54123
Label : Blue Note Records (USA)
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00724385412325

 
Professional Reviews
Entertainment Weekly (3/26/99, p.87)
- "...Wilson emerges, again, as a bittersweet-toned visionary." Rating A-"

Q (1/00, p.86)
- Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1999."

Q (7/99, p.125)
- 3 stars (out of 5)
- "...The arrangements are never less than interesting....the bravery of her concept is attractive, and her controlled, earthy voice is capable of rescuing most situations."

The Wire (6/99, p.65)
- "...TRAVELING MILES is carefully designed to please....Wilson's lyrics sit well enough on this soft focus re-creation of BITCHES BREW-era churning funk..."

CMJ (1/10/00, p.24)
- Included in CMJ's "Jazz '99 Top 5."

CMJ (3/29/99, p.3)
- "...Wilson's long awaited studio follow-up to 1995's critically acclaimed NEW MOON DAUGHTER, is a stirring tribute to the wit, wisdom and kinetic spirit of Miles Davis..."

JazzTimes (6/99, p.96)
- "...overall luxuriant muscularity of conception grabs you slowly, surely....[Wilson's] approach is refreshing, weird, and something that stepped out of a dream, which, in the main, describes this jewel."

Vibe (4/99, p.188)
- "...TRAVELING is inspired by, and in homage to, the work of Miles Davis....The result is standard Wilson fare in its multi-textured eclecticism. She is as bluesy as she is folk and jazz..."

Mojo (Publisher)
(1/00, p.31)
- Included in Mojo Magazine's "Best Jazz Albums" of 1999.

Mojo (Publisher)
(4/99, p.98)
- "...will satisfy fans and go some way to swaying resisters. Overtly purposeful and rigorous, she combines treatments of Davis-associated material with original songs..."

 
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