- Shall We Dance
- Polka Dots And Moonbeams
- I¿¿¿ve Grown Accustomed To His Face
- I Didn¿¿¿t Know What Time It Was
- Gee Baby Ain¿¿¿t I Good To You
- I¿¿¿m Old Fashioned
- Sweet Lorraine
- My One And Only Love
- Autumn Nocturne
- Blue Skies
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Mulgrew Miller Guest Artist,Piano
Lonnie Plaxico Bass,Bass (Acoustic)
Terri Lyne Carrington Drums
Oscar Hammerstein II Composer
Richard Rodgers Composer
Annie Watson Wardrobe,Clothing/Wardrobe
Johnny Burke Composer
Guenter Mattei Cover Design
Steve Byram Cover Design
Adrian von Ripka Mastering
Nat King Cole Trio Composer
Don Redman Composer
Johnny Mercer Composer
Josef Myrow Composer
Lorenz Hart Composer
Ira Gershwin Composer
George Gershwin Composer
Kim Gannon Composer
Clifford R. Burwell Composer
Joe Ferla Engineer
Alan Jay Lerner Composer
Irving Berlin Composer
Andy Razaf Composer
Angela Gomez Assistant Engineer
Jerome Kern Composer
Stefan Winter Packaging,Producer
Frederick Loewe Composer
Hiroshi Itsuno Executive Producer
Mitchell Parish Composer
Guy Wood Composer
Clifford Burwell Composer
Robert Mellin Composer
James Van Heusen Composer
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Overview
On 1988's Blue Skies, Cassandra Wilson took her first step away from the home she had built with Steve Coleman's M-Base organization. She'd done standards before, all the way back to 1985's Songbook. There are no M-Base players on this JMT set. She fronts a very conventional trio comprised of pianist Mulgrew Miller, drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, and bassist Lonnie Plaxico. The last of these is very significant because it would be Plaxico who directed her very startling and focused transformation when she signed to Blue Note Records in 1993 and released Blue Light 'Til Dawn. The program is pure standard fare, from "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" and "Shall We Dance?" to the title track and Rodgers & Hart's "I Didn't Know It What Time It Was." This cut is the most startling break from the rest in that it is much more forceful and hard-swinging than other readings, and showcases for the first time Wilson's tremendous individuality as a vocalist. There is much of Betty Carter still in her style here, but on this cut, she's pure Wilson, even the scatting comes not from jazz but from the blues of Wilson's Mississippi homeland. Another standout is Carter Burwell's "Sweet Lorraine," which wasn't quite a standard at the time but is quickly becoming one covered by many singers and is delivered in the classic repertoire's lineage. Not a masterpiece, but a really compelling first experiment with the more intimate forms and smaller groups Wilson would employ later on. ~ Thom Jurek
Product Details
Release Date: | 01/08/2013 |
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Label: | Winter & Winter |
UPC: | 0025091019922 |
Rank: | 149199 |
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Album Credits
Performance Credits
Cassandra Wilson Primary Artist,VocalsMulgrew Miller Guest Artist,Piano
Lonnie Plaxico Bass,Bass (Acoustic)
Terri Lyne Carrington Drums
Technical Credits
Cliff Burwell ComposerOscar Hammerstein II Composer
Richard Rodgers Composer
Annie Watson Wardrobe,Clothing/Wardrobe
Johnny Burke Composer
Guenter Mattei Cover Design
Steve Byram Cover Design
Adrian von Ripka Mastering
Nat King Cole Trio Composer
Don Redman Composer
Johnny Mercer Composer
Josef Myrow Composer
Lorenz Hart Composer
Ira Gershwin Composer
George Gershwin Composer
Kim Gannon Composer
Clifford R. Burwell Composer
Joe Ferla Engineer
Alan Jay Lerner Composer
Irving Berlin Composer
Andy Razaf Composer
Angela Gomez Assistant Engineer
Jerome Kern Composer
Stefan Winter Packaging,Producer
Frederick Loewe Composer
Hiroshi Itsuno Executive Producer
Mitchell Parish Composer
Guy Wood Composer
Clifford Burwell Composer
Robert Mellin Composer
James Van Heusen Composer
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