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Traveling Miles

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Released
  
March 23, 1999

Label
  
Blue Note

Release date
  
23 March 1999

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
62:21

Artist
  
Cassandra Wilson

Producer
  
Cassandra Wilson

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Recorded
  
December 1997 at The Hit Factory, NYC; May & September 1998 at Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, NY

Traveling Miles (1999)
  
Belly of the Sun (2002)

Nominations
  
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist

Similar
  
Cassandra Wilson albums, Jazz albums

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.

Contents

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

  • Cassandra Wilson – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Doug Wamble – acoustic guitar
  • Eric Lewis – piano
  • Jeffrey Haynes, Kevin Breit – acoustic, electric, resophonic & e-bow guitars, electric mandolin, mandocello, bazouki
  • Lonnie Plaxico – acoustic bass
  • Marcus Baylor – drums, percussion
  • Marvin Sewell – acoustic, classical & electric guitars, bazouki
  • Mino Cinelu – percussion
  • Perry Wilson – drums
  • Vincent Henry – harmonica
  • Dave Holland – bass
  • Olu Dara – cornet
  • Steve Coleman – alto sax
  • Pat Metheny – classical guitar
  • Angelique Kidjo – vocals
  • Regina Carter – violin
  • Stefon Harris – vibraphone

    • Songs

    1Run the VooDoo Down4:37
    2Traveling Miles4:52
    3Right Here - Right Now5:57

    References

    Traveling Miles Wikipedia
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