Traveling Miles

Traveling Miles
Studio album (Tribute album) by Cassandra Wilson
Released	March 23, 1999
Recorded	December 1997 at The Hit Factory, NYC; May & September 1998 at Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, NY
Genre	Jazz
Length	62:21
Label	Blue Note
Producer	Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson chronology
New Moon Daughter (1995) Traveling Miles (1999) Belly of the Sun (2002)

Professional ratings
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Source	Rating
All About Jazz	(favorable)[1]
Allmusic	[2]
Q	[3]
Rolling Stone	[4]

Traveling Miles is the thirteenth overall album by American jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson. Released on the Blue Note label in 1999, it is a tribute to Miles Davis, taking many of its cues from Davis' catalog of recordings with Columbia Records.

Track listing

1. "Run the Voodoo Down" (Miles Davis, Cassandra Wilson) – 4:36 *
2. "Traveling Miles" (Wilson) – 4:52
3. "Right Here Right Now" (Marvin Sewell, Wilson) – 5:57
4. "Time After Time" (Rob Hyman, Cyndi Lauper) – 4:08
5. "When The Sun Goes Down" (Wilson) – 6:05
6. "Seven Steps" (Victor Feldman, Davis) – 6:44
7. "Someday My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill, Larry Morey) – 3:53
8. "Never Broken" (Wayne Shorter, Wilson) – 5:13
9. "Resurrection Blues (Tutu)" (Marcus Miller, Wilson) – 6:11 *
10. "Sky & Sea (Blue in Green)" (Davis, Wilson) – 5:24 *
11. "Piper" (Wilson) – 5:03
12. "Voodoo Reprise" (Davis, Wilson, Angelique Kidjo) – 4:15

Japanese Bonus Track

13. "Prancing" (Davis, Wilson) – 6:24

* Links for these tracks are to original Miles Davis recordings, from which Wilson's recordings adapt and take inspiration.

Personnel

• Cassandra Wilson – vocals, acoustic guitar
• Doug Wamble – acoustic guitar
• Eric Lewis – piano
• Jeffrey Haynes, Kevin Breit – acoustic, electric, resophonic & e-bow guitars, electric mandolin, mandocello, bazouki
• Lonnie Plaxico – acoustic bass
• Marcus Baylor – drums, percussion
• Marvin Sewell – acoustic, classical & electric guitars, bazouki
• Mino Cinelu – percussion
• Perry Wilson – drums
• Vincent Henry – harmonica
• Dave Holland – bass
• Olu Dara – cornet
• Steve Coleman – alto sax
• Pat Metheny – classical guitar
• Angelique Kidjo – vocals
• Regina Carter – violin
• Stefon Harris – vibraphone

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