Days Aweigh available on February 28 2016 from Amazon for 10.19
Cassandra Wilson - Days Aweigh available on January 06 2015 from Base for 12.89
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Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - Jazz Audio
Manufacturered by Winter & Winter
Product weight is 0.24 lbs.
The JMT label was the gate through which many of today's Jazz stars emerged. Never was this more true than with Cassandra Wilson, one of today's biggest jazz stars.
This is hands-down my favorite album of the 1980's. It is categorized by some as M-BASE, but really transcends that genre.One of its major achievements is the constantly moving beat - Cassandra's vocal lines challenge what the other musicians are doing, and moves the beat in odd directions. This is similar to what Miles Davis did in the Plugged Nickel sessions from the 60's. It is the opposite of Steve Coleman's boring M-BASE albums from the 1990's - in those albums the beat i..
