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Released
  
1987

Length
  
51:58

Artist
  
Cassandra Wilson

Label
  
JMT Records

Recorded
  
May, 1987

Days Aweigh (1987)
  
Blue Skies (1988)

Release date
  
1987

Genre
  
Jazz

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Producers
  
Steve Coleman, Cassandra Wilson

Similar
  
Cassandra Wilson albums, Jazz albums

Days Aweigh is the second studio album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson. It was originally released on the JMT label in 1987 and later rereleased on Winter & Winter.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic's Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars and stated "this is advanced free funk dance music."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Cassandra Wilson; except where indicated

  1. "Electromagnolia" (Olu Dara, Cassandra Wilson) – 4:45
  2. "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin) – 2:31
  3. "Days Aweigh" (Jean-Paul Bourelly) – 3:27
  4. "Subatomic Blues"  – 4:34
  5. "Apricots on Their Wings" (Henry Threadgill) – 5:49
  6. "If You Only Know How"  – 5:07
  7. "You Belong to You"  – 4:55
  8. "Some Other Time" (Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 5:12
  9. "Black and Yellow" (Rod Williams) – 5:38

Personnel

  • Cassandra Wilson – vocals, guitar
  • Jean-Paul Bourelly – guitar
  • Steve Coleman – percussion, sax
  • Mark Johnson – drums
  • Olu Dara – cornet, vocals
  • Graham Haynes – trumpet
  • Kenny Davis – bass
  • Kevin Bruce – bass
  • Rod Williams – piano, synthesizer

    • Production notes:

  • Steve Coleman – producer
  • Cassandra Wilson – producer
  • Stefan F. Winter – executive producer
  • Joe Marciano – engineer
  • Adrian Von Ripka – mastering
  • Henry Threadgill – arranger
  • Joseph Gasu Rittenberg – photography, cover design
  • Günter Mattei – cover design

    • Songs

    1Electromagnolia4:45
    2Let's Face the Music2:31
    3Days Aweigh3:27

    References

    Days Aweigh Wikipedia
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