Cassandra Wilson - Blue Skies - 180g Vinyl LP

2015 release

Reissue of Billboard's Top Jazz Album of 1989

In this third production under her name, Cassandra Wilson dug deeply into the rich mine of jazz standards and brought to the surface tunes that are classic yet not overstrained. Cassandra moves in the area of jazz standards with the same ease as in her own music, represented on her first two albums, never failing to put her own stamp on the music. Her vocals are artful instead of artificial, forceful instead of forced, and there is no fooling around with unnecessary ornamentation every note is sincere.

Live-to-Two-Track Recording
Analog Re-Mastering
Lacquer Cut
180 gram vinyl

with Mulgrew Miller, Lonnie Plaxico and Terri Lyne Carrington

Side A
Shall We Dance [Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein]
Polka Dots And Moonbeams [James van Heusen, Johnny Burke]
I've Grown Accustomed To His Face [Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner]
I Didn't Know What Time It Was [Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart]

Side B
I'm Old Fashioned [Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer]
Sweet Lorraine [Clifford Burwell, Mitchell Parish]
My One And Only Love [Guy Wood, Robert Mellin]
Autumn Nocturne [Josef Myrow, Kim Gannon]
Blue Skies [Irving Berlin]

total time: 44:00