Word: albums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sewell's influence is evident in the Wilson remake of "Time after Time." That's right, Cyndi Lauper, but Miles Davis also interpreted the melody closer to the less-noted curtain call of his career. A slightly dismayed murmur from those who had not heard her new album flowed across the words "Cyndi Lauper" as Wilson introduced the piece. The fear quickly turned into mellow groove, though, as audience members regretted questioning for even a second Wilson's class. Her slightly-lower-than-contralto changes the song completely, as does Sewell's light acoustic background and Plaxico's soothing base...
Cassandra Wilson's concept of jazz involves exploration and combination. Each number in the show was a new trip. Even though they were primarily takes from her latest album and mostly in order from the recording, she and her band members improvised differently and even, at times, drastically changed the way the song was arranged. Traveling Miles takes old favorites and puts a new stamp on them; her stamp is forever open to new direction by her or her musicians...
Although Mark Linkous, lead singer of Sparklehorse, lives in a secluded farmhouse in Virginia and has a penchant for wearing white Stetsons onstage, the group is considerably better known in Europe than in the U.S. Portuguese, French, German and British web sites lauding the band's first album Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot and its latest effort, Good Morning Spider, attest to this. They have toured Europe successfully, and Spider has been rated album of the year for 1998 by The London Sunday Times, also muscling its way into Top Ten lists of various magazines. The show last weekend was part of the band...
...Sewell's influence is evident in the Wilson remake of "Time after Time." That's right, Cyndi Lauper, but Miles Davis also interpreted the melody closer to the less-noted curtain call of his career. A slightly dismayed murmur from those who had not heard her new album flowed across the words "Cyndi Lauper" as Wilson introduced the piece. The fear quickly turned into mellow groove, though, as audience members regretted questioning for even a second Wilson's class. Her slightly-lower-than-contralto changes the song completely, as does Sewell's light acoustic background and Plaxico's soothing base...
...Cassandra Wilson's concept of jazz involves exploration and combination. Each number in the show was a new trip. Even though they were primarily takes from her latest album and mostly in order from the recording, she and her band members improvised differently and even, at times, drastically changed the way the song was arranged. Traveling Miles takes old favorites and puts a new stamp on them; her stamp is forever open to new direction by her or her musicians...