Cassandra Wilson "Coming Forth By Day" 180gm 2LP

Cassandra Wilson "Coming Forth By Day" 180gm 2LP

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Format: " 180gm 2LP

Label: Ojah Media Group/Legacy

Released: 2015

Country: U.S.

2015 album by the jazz vocalist/musician/songwriter. “Coming Forth By Day” is a musical homage to legendary jazz vocalist Billie Holiday on the 100th anniversary of the singer's birth.

The album was produced by Nick Launay, known as Nick Cave's producer for the last decade among many other adventurous credits. Wilson recorded the music at Seedy Underbelly studios in Los Angeles, accompanied by an A list musical team including producer Launay, guitarists T Bone Burnett and Nick Zinner of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, string arranger Van Dyke Parks and rhythm section The Bad Seeds (drummer Thomas Wydler and bassist Martyn P. Casey).

Wilson is a leading American Jazz has who has received many awards and accolades, including: two Grammys (1996, Best Jazz Vocal Performance; 2009, Best Jazz Vocal Album);Down Beat's Female Jazz Vocalist of the Year (1994-1996); the Montreal International Jazz Festival's Miles Davis Prize (1999); named "America's Best Singer" in Time magazine (2001); honorary doctorate in the Arts from Millsaps College (2003); added to the Mississippi Blues Trail (2010); and taken home the BET Soul Train Award (2011, Best Traditional Jazz Album).

Tracklisting

  1. Don't Explain
  2. Billie's Blues
  3. Crazy He Calls Me
  4. You Go To My Head
  5. All Of Me
  6. The Way You Look Tonight
  7. Good Morning Heartache
  8. What A Little Moonlight Can Do
  9. These Foolish Things
  10. Strange Fruit
  11. I'll Be Seeing You
  12. Last Song (For Lester)