Cassandra Wilson’s landmark album ‘Blue Light ‘Til
Dawn’ helped to define a new style of jazz when it was released two decades
ago. It went on to sell nearly one million copies and earned Cassandra the
title of “America’s best singer” from Time magazine. On April 29, Blue Note/UMe
will release an expanded 20th anniversary edition of ‘Blue Light ‘Til Dawn,’
adding three previously unreleased live recordings from Wilson’s 1994 European
tour to the digitally remastered album.
‘Blue Light ‘Til
Dawn,’ Wilson’s Blue Note Records debut, broke new ground by providing an
alternate route to vocal jazz stardom, mining blues, folk and R&B. Along
with three original compositions and innovative takes on blues and jazz
standards, Wilson provided a radical treatment of popular music including Van
Morrison’s “Tupelo Honey,” Joni Mitchell’s “Black Crow,” and Ann Peebles’ “I
Can’t Stand The Rain.”
Wilson’s unique
approach to rhythm allowed her to blend unusual melodies and harmonies with a
band that used inventive instrumentation and virtuosic performance to create a
wholly original sound. Cassandra’s album also opened a new door for jazz
vocalists, among them Norah Jones, who has stated that she studied the album
while composing and arranging her own Blue Note debut.
The original
producer of the album, Craig Street, oversaw the remastering of this edition
with Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, who has mastered albums by Bob Dylan, The
Beatles and Paul Simon.
The Expanded
Edition plays a key role in a big year for Cassandra Wilson, which includes a
‘Blue Light To A New Dawn’ tour of Europe and the U.S., a song featured on
HBO’s ‘True Detective,’ and a new album of Billie Holiday songs slated for
release next year. She’ll also sing and play guitar with the trio Harriet
Tubman on select dates in March including the BRIC House venue in Brooklyn on
March 16.
Cassandra Wilson:
‘Blue Light ‘Til Dawn’ (20th Anniversary Edition)
1. You Don’t Know
What Love Is
2. Come On In My
Kitchen
3. Tell Me You’ll
Wait For Me
4. Children Of The
Night
5. Hellhound On My
Trail
6. Black Crow
7. Sankofa
8. Estrellas
9. Redbone
10. Tupelo Honey
11. Blue Light ’Til
Dawn
12. I Can’t Stand
The Rain
Produced by Craig
Street / Previously
Unreleased Bonus Tracks: Live In Europe, 1994
13. Black Crow
(Live)
14. Skylark (Live)
15. Tupelo Honey
(Live)
Cassandra Wilson
tour dates:
March (Harriet
Tubman + Cassandra Wilson Present: Black Sun)
3/14 – Bergen
Performing Arts Center - Bergen, NJ
3/15 – Swyer
Theatre – The Egg - Albany, NY
3/16 – BRIC House -
Brooklyn, NY
April (Cassandra
Wilson ‘Blue Light To A New Dawn’ tour)
4/05-06 – Gazarte -
Athens, Greece
4/08 – Lisinki
Concert Hall - Zagreb, Croatia
4/11 – Banlieues
Blues Festival - Bobigny, France
4/13 – Krakow,
Poland – Kijow Centrum
4/15-19 – Bern Jazz
Festival - Bern, Switzerland
4/22 – Finlandia
Hall – April Jazz Festival - Helsinki, Finland
4/25 – Jazzkaar
Festival - Tallinn, Estonia
4/27 – Kaunas Jazz
Festival - Kaunas, Lithuania
May (Cassandra
Wilson ‘Blue Light To A New Dawn’ tour)
5/03 – Manchester
Craftsmen’s Guild - Pittsburgh, PA
5/04 – Evanston
SPACE - Evanston, IL
5/07-08 – The
Triple Door - Seattle, WA
5/10 – The Fonda
Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
5/11 – Musical
Instrument Museum - Phoenix, AZ
5/13 – Kuumbwa Jazz
Center - Santa Cruz, CA
5/15 – Oakland, CA
– Yoshi’s
5/16-17 – San
Francisco, CA – Yoshi’s
5/19-20 – Dakota
Bar & Grill - Minneapolis, MN
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