Cassandra Wilson, "Traveling Miles" (Blue Note)


Erik Gaderlund (erikg@macconnect.com)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 01:14:44 -0800



>Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 09:52:05 -0500 (EST)
>From: Y <whirl@slack.net>
>Reply-To: whirl@slack.net
>To: acid-jazz <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
>Subject: Cassandra Wilson, "Traveling Miles" (Blue Note)
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>Has anyone heard this newest from Ms. Wilson ?
>A self-proclaimed "Miles Davis celebration"
>that picks up such Davis songs like
>"Someday My Prince Will Come," "Blue in Green"
>and (for some inexplicable reason)
>Cyndi Lauper's (?!?!) "Time After Time."
>
>Being not very familiar with her work previously
>I can't say I was all too impressed by this album.
>Cassandra Wilson is most known to me
>thru her work in the soundtrack on the film
>"Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil."
>Everytime I hear her husky voice, I can't get
>these sweepy willow trees and creepy cemetaries
>trailing vine and shadowy figures out of my mind.
>
>Is she known for experimentalism ?
>She sounded like the norm cut-and-paste jazz vocalist,
>like a lounge act you can hear on any given night
>in the jazz clubs of NYC's West Village.
>

She's been around for a while, I think one of her earlier albums "New Moon
Daughter" got some props, (the lastest is her third I think). She was a
part of the M-Base Collective a group that got together in the late
80s-early 90s to do a what we would now probably call acid jazz, it was a
jazz hip-hop mix, other members were Steve Coleman, Greg Osby, graham
Haynes, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, I've only got their ablum "Anatomy Of A
Groove" with the subtitle: Current structural developments in 21st century
creative black music.
Mostly Cassandra's been paired with Kevin Mahogany, in that they are older
musicans keeping the vocalist traditions alive.

erik g



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