Traveling Miles

Traveling Miles
Studio album (Tribute album) by Cassandra Wilson
Released March 23, 1999
Recorded December 1997 at The Hit Factory, NYC;
May & September 1998 at Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, NY
Genre Jazz
Length 62:21
Label Blue Note
Producer Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson chronology
New Moon Daughter
(1995)
Traveling Miles
(1999)
Belly of the Sun
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz(favorable)[1]
Allmusic[2]
Q[3]
Rolling Stone[4]

Traveling Miles is the thirteenth overall album by American jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson. Released on the Blue Note label in 1999, it is a tribute to Miles Davis, taking many of its cues from Davis' catalog of recordings with Columbia Records.

Track listing

  1. "Run the Voodoo Down" (Miles Davis, Cassandra Wilson) – 4:36 *
  2. "Traveling Miles" (Wilson) – 4:52
  3. "Right Here Right Now" (Marvin Sewell, Wilson) – 5:57
  4. "Time After Time" (Rob Hyman, Cyndi Lauper) – 4:08
  5. "When The Sun Goes Down" (Wilson) – 6:05
  6. "Seven Steps" (Victor Feldman, Davis) – 6:44
  7. "Someday My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill, Larry Morey) – 3:53
  8. "Never Broken" (Wayne Shorter, Wilson) – 5:13
  9. "Resurrection Blues (Tutu)" (Marcus Miller, Wilson) – 6:11 *
  10. "Sky & Sea (Blue in Green)" (Davis, Wilson) – 5:24 *
  11. "Piper" (Wilson) – 5:03
  12. "Voodoo Reprise" (Davis, Wilson, Angelique Kidjo) – 4:15
Japanese Bonus Track
  1. "Prancing" (Davis, Wilson) – 6:24

* Links for these tracks are to original Miles Davis recordings, from which Wilson's recordings adapt and take inspiration.

Personnel

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1999 Billboard Top Jazz Albums 1
Billboard Heatseekers 5
Billboard The Billboard 200 158

References

  1. All About Jazz review
  2. Allmusic review
  3. Glasser, Brian. "Review: Cassandra Wilson - Travelling Miles". Q. EMAP Metro Ltd (July 1999): 125.
  4. Rolling Stone review
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