Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #168130 in Music
• Released on: 2005-03-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: DVD Audio
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

From Amazon.com
Cassandra Wilson's tribute to Miles Davis, Traveling Miles, is nothing if not ambitious--easily on par with the other slew of Davis tribs. Covering the great trumpeter's long career is alone quite a challenge, but Wilson sets her goals even higher by writing new lyrics and arrangements that make these tunes her own. The result is a pleasure that ends up capturing Wilson's spirit as well as Davis's. Never one to hew to traditional jazz's formats, Wilson adds acoustic and slide guitars, percussion, harmonica, and other instruments that give the album an enormously varied feel. "Right Here, Right Now," with its strummed and slide guitars, wouldn't sound out of place on a Joni Mitchell album, and her intriguing cover of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" (covered by Davis in 1985 on You're Under Arrest), is delicately mournful. Not that Wilson has left jazz behind: the swinging version of "Seven Steps to Heaven," with guest solos by violinist Regina Carter and vibraphonist Stefon Harris, whose 1998 debut was one of the year's promising releases, is a highlight. And Wilson's version of the Davis classic "Blue in Green" (here titled "Sky and Sea"), is just plainly beautiful. Her deep and soulful voice remains as compelling as ever through the many moods and colors, deepening the uniqueness of her take on the Miles songbook. Exactly the way Miles would have wanted it. --Ezra Gale

Un Essentiel amazon.fr
Le premier choc, si on ne connaît pas Cassandra Wilson, c'est la voix. Une voix grave, profonde, émouvante, pétrie des inflexions du blues de son Mississipi natal. Une voix qui a décidé de rendre hommage à une autre "voix" de la musique noire américaine, celle de Miles Davis, dont la trompette fut parmi les plus vocales qui soient. Aucune velléité imitative ici, mais un climat ondoyant, multiforme, comme Miles savait en créer, dans un tout autre esprit. Rester elle-même en voyageant dans le répertoire de Miles (ses thèmes et ceux qu'il reprit), toutes époques confondues, et en en donnant une lecture à la fois totalement personnelle et totalement pertinente, voilà ce qu'a réussi cette grande dame du chant qu'est Cassandra Wilson. C'est magnifique, et elle est merveilleusement entourée pour ce voyage musical qu'on ne se lasse pas de faire et de refaire avec elle. --Thierry Quénum

Entertainment Weekly
Wilson skirts standard definitions of jazz singing, and her Miles Davis tribute is expectedly unexpected, a gentle, dreamy thing.