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Blue Light 'Til Dawn (CD)

By: Cassandra Wilson (Artist)

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Cassandra Wilson Artist Snapshot:

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.

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DISC 1 for Blue Light 'Til Dawn (CD) Album By Cassandra Wilson (Artist)
1   You Don't Know What Love Is
2   Come On In My Kitchen
3   Tell Me You'll Wait For Me
4   Children Of The Night
5   Hellhound On My Trail
6   Black Crow
7   Sankofa
8   Estrellas
9   Redbone
10   Tupelo Honey
11   Blue Light 'Til Dawn
12   I Can't Stand The Rain
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (3/24/94, p.93) - 3 1/2 Stars - Very Good - "...surround[s] a handful of Wilson's own songs with selections from more contemporary writers and break[s] exciting new ground with two selections from the Delta blues songbook of Robert Johnson...."
Entertainment Weekly (11/12/93, p.65) - "...Wilson makes the strongest impact yet on [BLUE LIGHT 'TIL DAWN]...Wilson's husky voice hums and shivers with a dry, evocative soulfulness..." - Rating: A-
Down Beat (12/93, p.47) - 5 Stars - Excellent - "...Wilson's strongest most consistent recording....creates a new environment for her distinctive vocals: acoustic, open and earthy....she sees beyond distinctions of style and genre...BLUE LIGHT should win her many new admirers...."
Vibe (9/93, p.134) - "...waxes nostalgic for the days when black romance meant more than `I Want A Gangsta Bitch' and throws some new twists into our conception of jazz standards..."
Musician (1/94, p.90) - "...A hushed masterpiece of torrid romanticism, [BLUE LIGHT 'TIL DAWN] is at once [Cassandra Wilson's] most assured and daring album to date..."
Village Voice (3/1/94, p.5) - Ranked #34 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
Stereo Review (2/94, p.134) - "...her improvisational skills are formidable, and she can take a song and mold it sensuously into pure poetry...Cassandra Wilson is a captivating, musical storyteller..."

Title Note

Personnel: Cassandra Wilson (vocals); Olu Dara (cornet); Don Byron (clarinet); Charlie Burnham (violin, mandocello); Tony Cedras (accordion); Brandon Ross, Chris Whitley (guitar); Gib Wharton (pedal steel guitar); Kenny Davis, Lonnie Plaxico (bass); Lance Carter, Kevin Johnson, Bill McClellan, Jeff Haynes, Cyro Baptista, Cyro (percussion).

Engineers: Danny Kopelson, Jamie Staub, Jimmy Douglas.

BLUE LIGHT 'TIL DAWN was nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Performance in the 37th Annual Grammy Awards.

Possessed with both a spirit of innovation and a sultry, textured voice that lends itself to any number of styles, Cassandra Wilson was one of the most exciting vocal talents to gain prominence in the 1990s, and her '93 Blue Note debut, BLUE LIGHT 'TIL DAWN, may be her finest moment. Though Wilson's earliest albums specialized in the jazz fusion characteristic of the M-Base collective (a Brooklyn-based group of musicians to which she belonged), BLUE LIGHT finds her bringing her skills to a set of acoustic standards and covers with a rootsy, blues-based feel.

The choice of material is eclectic, with Ann Peebles's "I Can't Stand the Rain," Van Morrison's "Tupelo Honey," Robert Johnson's "Hellhound On My Trail," and two of Wilson's originals in the mix. This is vintage wee-small-hours music: moody, spacious, atmospheric, with Wilson's deep, evocative voice curling up like a train of smoke through the darkness. Beautifully conceived and performed, BLUE LIGHT 'TIL DAWN is a quiet masterpiece, and one of the best vocal jazz albums of the '90s.

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