Cat No:
PPANBST81357
Release Date: 01 September 2011
Label: Pure Pleasure Records
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 5060149621424
Genres: Jazz Vocal Jazz
-
Description
180g audiophile vinyl reissue, double LP housed in a gatefold sleeve, remastering by Ron McMaster at Capitol Studios.
"Cassandra Wilson started out as a jazz singer, doing gigs with several innovative bands (including Brooklyn's experimental M-Base collective) and at the same time recording typical jazz-singer let-me-entertain-you stuff...Eventually the Mississippi-born New York-based vocalist, who reigned among the elite jazz singers of the 1980s, became restless, and began to look beyond torch songs for inspiration.
So she looked outside of jazz for inspiration. In interviews, she's recalled how she began seeking new challenges for her voice, a mighty instrument blessed with husky overtones and an alluringly smoky woodish hue. She began to integrate gospel and blues and pop songs into her performances, eventually assimilating them into music that blurs genre distinctions entirely. Blue Light 'til Dawn is the first album to capture that shift. It features wondrously spare, molasses-slow versions of Robert Johnson ("Come On in My Kitchen," "Hellhound on My Trail"), Philly soul (Thom Bell and Linda Creed's "Children of the Night,"), pop (Van Morrison's "Tupelo Honey"), and torch song ("You Don't Know What Love Is").
Working with a small group of inventive New York jazzers, emphasizing hand drums and percussion over trap set, Wilson cultivates the opposite of dazzle - hers is an inviting, shadow-filled sound that calls from a lonesome bayou. Atmosphere dictates everything that happens on these tracks, and helps knit together pieces from disparate ends of popular music. It also guides Wilson's vocals: Her sullen "Hellhound" wanders far from typical blues woe, yet winds up an apt, weary summation of it all the same.
Blue Light became an adult contemporary hit, and set Wilson on the course she's pursued since. The records are all engrossing and shaped by extremely sensitive musicianship, but Blue Light has something more - the renegade energy of one who, having taken a flying leap, is just discovering a new mode of expression." - 1000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die -
Tracklisting
- 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
- 1. Sankofa
- 2. Estrellas
- 3. Redbone
- 4. Tupelo Honey
- 5. Blue Light 'Til Dawn
- 6. I Can't Stand The Rain
Disc 1
Side 1
Side 2
Disc 2
Side 1
Side 2
-
-
Little Girl Blue
Nina Simone
- Regular
- from £7.99
- Sale
- from £7.99
- Regular
-
Sold Out
- Unit Price
- per
Left Alone Revisited
Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron
- Regular
- from £8.99
- Sale
- from £8.99
- Regular
-
Sold Out
- Unit Price
- per
A Spirit Speaks
The Descendants Of Mike & Phoebe
- Regular
- £33.99
- Sale
- £33.99
- Regular
-
Sold Out
- Unit Price
- per
After Midnight - The Complete Session
Nat King Cole
- Regular
- £47.99
- Sale
- £47.99
- Regular
-
Sold Out
- Unit Price
- per
Lucky Four
David Murray
- Regular
- from £8.99
- Sale
- from £8.99
- Regular
-
Sold Out
- Unit Price
- per
Bushman Song
John Stubblefield
- Regular
- from £8.99
- Sale
- from £8.99
- Regular
-
Sold Out
- Unit Price
- per
Handscapes 2
The Piano Choir
- Regular
- £33.99
- Sale
- £33.99
- Regular
-
Sold Out
- Unit Price
- per
George Coleman at Yoshi's
George Coleman
- Regular
- £23.99
- Sale
- £23.99
- Regular
-
Sold Out
- Unit Price
- per
New Moon Daughter
Cassandra Wilson
- Regular
- £47.99
- Sale
- £47.99
- Regular
-
Sold Out
- Unit Price
- per