Music Review

Traveling Miles

Cassandra Wilson
Reviewed by Josef Woodard | Mar 26, 1999
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: Cassandra Wilson; Genre: Jazz

Wilson skirts standard definitions of jazz singing in Traveling Miles, and her Miles Davis tribute is expectedly unexpected, a gentle, dreamy thing. Musk-voiced, with electro-acoustic voodoo production, she nods to Miles with a refreshed arrangement of ''Time After Time'' and a meltingly weird ''Someday My Prince Will Come.'' Her hypnotic read on ''Blue in Green'' (re-titled ''Sky and Sea''), featuring Pat Metheny, is worth the price of admission. Wilson emerges, again, as a bittersweet-toned visionary. A-

Originally posted Mar 26, 1999 Published in issue #478 Mar 26, 1999 Order article reprints

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