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| Point of View |
| Cassandra Wilson |
első megjelenés éve: 1985
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| (2001)
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árajánlatot! |
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| 1. | Square Roots
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| 2. | Blue in Green
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| 3. | Never
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| 4. | Desperate Move
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| 5. | Love and Hate
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| 6. | I Am Waiting
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| 7. | I Wished on the Moon
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| 8. | I Thought You Knew
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Jazz / Vocal
Recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, New York in December 1985
Digitally remastered by Adrian Von Ripka (Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg)
Cassandra Wilson (vocals)
Steve Coleman (alto saxophone, percussion); Grachan Moncur III (trombone); Jean-Paul Bourelly (guitar); Lonnie Plaxico (acoustic & electric basses); Mark Johnson (drums)
The Winter & Winter reissue of POINT OF VIEW contains all the original artwork from the LP release and is packaged in a CD-Smart-Pac (a hard-backed slipcase).
Cassandra Wilson was born in Jackson, Mississippi. She began her musical studies on piano and guitar at age nine. At twenty she launched her professional career as a vocalist and guitarist, focusing primarily on Blues and Folk music. Cassandra Wilson emerged as a Jazz vocalist while studying with drummer Alvin Fiedler. During this period she performed with the Alvin Fiedler Improvisational Arts Quartet and worked as a freelance vocalist for the Black Arts Music Society of Jackson, Mississippi. At the age of twenty-six she moved to New Orleans and studied with saxophonist Earl Turbinton. Since her arrival in New York, Cassandra Wilson has performed at several clubs including Sweet Basil, the Village Vanguard, Small's Paradise, Lush Life, the Jazz Forum and the Blue Note. She has sung in various jazz styles with musicians such as Woody Shaw, Dave Holland, Steve Coleman, Henry Threadgill and Abbey Lincoln.
Steve Coleman made his debut album Motherland Pulse on JMT in 1985. Born in Chicago in 1956, Steve Coleman attended High School and College Music Conservatory. Thad Jones first heard him in Chicago in 1977 and, being impressed by his powerful tone and outstanding phrasing, encouragd him to start out as a professional musician. In 1978 he hired him for his Big Band. In the following years he toured th USA and also Europe performing and recording with Branford Marsalis, Chico Freeman, Billy Hart and especially Doug Hammond and Dave Holland. JMT will release the album Steve Coleman And Five Elements in the near future.
Grachan Moncur III is an innovator on trombone and a composer whose works had a major influence on the new wave jazz that developed in the 1960's. He has been a featured artist with such jazz greats as Ray Charles, Sonny Rollins and Archie Shepp, as well as leading groups of his own, since attending Julliard and the Manhattan School of music. Grachan Moncur III was recipient of the prestigious Mason Gross Award in 1980 given out by the New Jersey State Council of the Arts. He has made great albums with Archie Shepp and Jackie McLean and has also recorded several albums as a leader for Blue Note and Impulse. An international recording and performing luminary, he is listed as the first trombonist identified with the avantgarde jazz in Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of jazz.
Jean-Paul Bourelly born in 1960, of Haitian and American descent, began studying guitar at age 14. Recipient of music scholarships from Chicago State University and American Conservatory of Music, Jean-Paul Bourelly names Albert King, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix and James Brown as his early influences. Today he enjoys listenig to the music of Olu Dara and Henry Threadgill. He has performed with Elvin Jones, Chico Hamilton and McCoy Tyner.
Lonnie Plaxico a self-taught musician, began his studies on electric bass at age 12 and acoustic bass at age 16. He is a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Dexter Gordon, Slide Hampton and has recorded with Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie and Davie Murray. Lonnie Plaxico also plays bass on Steve Coleman's album Motherland Pulse.
Mark Johnson born in 1957 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, studied at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music under Jazz Director Tony King and Tele Lesbin. Mark Johnson started playing drums at the age of 12. He began his professional career at 15, with his father (Jazz singer and tap dancer Scat Johnson) one of the original members of well known Ink Spots. While attending the Conservatory, he worked with the Wisconsin Conservatory Faculty Ensemble, Jazz great pianist Buddy Montgomery and guitarist Monty Ellis. In 1978 Mark Johnson moved to New York to further his musical career. He played with Abbey Lincoln, Mal Waldron, Bunken Green and Charles Rouse. He is a member of Steve Coleman's group Five Elements.
---Original Press Text written in 1986
Cassandra Wilson's debut as a leader features the chance-taking singer in a funky M-Base setting. The overcrowded ensembles (played by altoist Steve Coleman, trombonist Grachan Moncur III, guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly, bassist Lonnie Plaxico, and drummer Mark Johnson) did not leave much space for a singer, but the flexible Wilson did her best to find a role for her voice, and she sounds enthusiastic. In addition to group originals, the sextet performs "Blue in Green" (which has Wilson's lyrics) and "I Wished on the Moon."
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Cassandra Wilson
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Dec 04, 1955 in Jackson, MS
Genre: Vocal
Styles: Contemporary Jazz, Free Funk, M-Base, Standards, Vocal Jazz, World Fusion
Although her recording career has been somewhat erratic, Cassandra Wilson became one of the top jazz singers of the '90s, a vocalist blessed with a distinctive and flexible voice who is not afraid to take chances. She began playing piano and guitar when she was nine and was working as a vocalist by the mid-'70s, singing a wide variety of material. Following a year in New Orleans, Wilson moved to New York in 1982 and began working with Dave Holland and Abbey Lincoln. After meeting Steve Coleman, she became the main vocalist with the M-Base Collective. Although there was really no room for a singer in the overcrowded free funk ensembles, Wilson did as good a job of fitting in as was possible. She worked with New Air and recorded her first album as a leader in 1985. By her third record, a standards date, she was sounding quite a bit like Betty Carter.
After a few more albums in which she mostly performed original and rather inferior material, Cassandra Wilson changed directions and performed an acoustic blues-oriented program for Blue Note called Blue Light 'Til Dawn. By going back in time, she had found herself, and Wilson has continued interpreting in fresh and creative ways vintage country blues and folk music up until the present day. During 1997 she toured as part of Wynton Marsalis' Blood on the Fields production. Traveling Miles, her tribute to Miles Davis, followed two years later. For 2002's Belly of the Sun, she drew on an array of roots musics -- blues, country, soul, rock -- to fashion a record that furthered her artistic career while still aligning well with trends in popular music. Glamoured, released in 2003, posed a different kind of challenge; half the material was composed by Wilson herself. Unwilling to stand still, Wilson gently explored sampling and other hip-hop techniques for 2006's Thunderbird.
--- Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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