曲目リスト

1. Don't Look Back [#]
2. Soul Melange [#]
3. 'Round Midnight [#]
4. My Corner of the Sky [#]
5. Desperate Move
6. Body and Soul
7. Rock This Calling

商品の詳細

• Amazon.co.jp ランキング: #521691 / ミュージック
• 発売日: 1992-03-17
• ディスク枚数: 1
• 形式: Live, Import, from US

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This live 1990 set makes clear that Cassandra Wilson had fully arrived. In the live setting, she calls on greater reserves of vim than mark her predominantly lolling, brooding studio dates. All to great effect. One senses Betty Carter-like showmanship, Peggy Lee-like swagger, and, of course, Nina Simone's otherworldly drone. Just as formative was Wilson's Joni Mitchell-inspired apprenticeship in the coffeehouses of Jackson, Mississippi, and other southern cities. She breathes fresh life into standards like "'Round Midnight." Her anthem of black resilience, "Don't Look Back," receives driving treatment. A telling selection is Wilson's own composition, "My Corner of the Sky," because its lyrics and delivery transport her to a distinctly personal space of the kind she was coming to inhabit so regally. --Peter Monaghan