Product Description

Throughout the '90s the smoky-voiced contralto Cassandra Wilson has shunned piano accompaniment in favour of close-miked acoustic guitars, evoking a moodily sensual atmosphere in which pop, blues, country and straight jazz vocals all mergetogether. 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 favourite Miles covers,"Someday My Prince Will Come" and Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time". The singer also contributes some of her own welcomeoriginals 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.

Track Listing

1. Run The VooDoo Down
2. Travelling Miles
3. Right Here Right Now
4. Time After Time
5. When The Sun Goes Down
6. Climb That Road
7. Someday My Prince Will Come
8. Never Broken (ESP)
9. Resurrection Blues (Tutu)
10. Sky And Sea (Blue In Green)
11. Piper
12. Run The VooDoo Down (1)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33544 in Music
• Released on: 1999-03-22
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Perfectly Formed ( nevertoolate #011 )
Some things come into the world perfectly formed.

Ms Wilson's 1999 recording 'Travelling Miles' is one of them.

Less a tribute album to the great Mr Davis - perhaps more
a meditation and a love letter.

The dark, velvety tones of Ms Wilson's remarkably
beautiful voice have never sounded better than here.

The twelve tracks, three of them self-penned, weave a rich
and varied tapestry.

Her take on Ms Lauper and Mr Hyman's 'Time After Time'
(despite unforgivably sloppy guitar tuning from Mr Breit)
is a thing of beauty.

So too, her own song 'Travelling Miles', recalling in some
ways Ms Mitchell's estimable pean to Mr Mingus.

The mercurial ensemble playing on 'Seven Steps', particularly
Ms Carter's violin and Mr Harris' vibraphone, is especially
commendable.

'Someday My Prince Will Come' has never sounded better.

Mr Davis' 'Sky and Sea (Blue and Green)' also gets a sultry
and seductive treatment.

Treasures aplenty then on this cracking album.

There were great things still to come ( notably 'Belly of
the Sun' : 2002 ) but for my money this album remains
the pinnacle, so far, of Ms Wilson's recording career.

Highly recommended.

jazzisticus was right
See review above, this is infuriating, wish I had listened! The music is good though

Bad DVD Audio Mastering
The Left surround channel of this disk is around 20 db Lower than the other channels. I spent over two hours troubleshooting my ARCAM system, swapping cables, testing levels with other DVD Audio, using Soundmeters. It's definetely on the disk itself...

I advise people who like this music to avoid the DVD Audio and buy the CD...