Point of View (Cassandra Wilson album)

Point of View
Studio album by
Cassandra Wilson
Released1986
RecordedDecember 1985
StudioSystems Two, Brooklyn.
GenreJazz
Length42:16
LabelJMT
ProducerStefan F. Winter, Steve Coleman
Cassandra Wilson chronology
Point of View
(1986) 		Days Aweigh
(1987)

Point of View is the debut studio album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, recorded in Brooklyn, New York, in December 1985, as the fourth release of the German JMT label in 1986.[1] It was also one of the first albums of a group of musicians around Steve Coleman, that became known as M-Base.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide[5]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music[6]

Writing for Allmusic on the occasion of the albums reissue on Winter & Winter in 2001, Scott Yanow gave the album a star rating of four out of five and praised Wilson's effort to "find a role for her voice" among "overcrowded ensembles". He described Wilson as a "chance-taking singer in a funky M-Base setting."[7]

Track listing

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  1. "Square Roots" (Cassandra Wilson) – 4:39
  2. "Blue in Green" (Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Wilson) – 4:10
  3. "Never" (Steve Coleman, Wilson) – 4:41
  4. "Desperate Move" (Coleman) – 7:58
  5. "Love & Hate" (Grachan Moncur III) – 8:19
  6. "I Am Waiting" (Wilson) – 3:39
  7. "I Wished on the Moon" (Dorothy Parker, Ralph Rainger) – 3:35
  8. "I Thought You Knew" (Jean-Paul Bourelly) – 5:36

Personnel

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Band

Production

  • Stefan F. Winter – producer
  • Steve Coleman – producer
  • Joe Marciano – engineer
  • Adrian Von Ripka – mastering
  • Christine Paxmann;– cover design
  • Scott Sternbach – photography
  • Günter Mattei – cover design for the reissue
  • Joseph Gasu Rittenberg – photography for the reissue

References

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  1. ^ Shimada, T., JMT label discography, accessed September 26, 2014
  2. ^ Point of View at AllMusic
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin. "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". p. 5871. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard. "The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD". p. 1589. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  5. ^ Swenson, John (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. Retrieved 23 September 2019. Blue Skies (Cassandra Wilson album).
  6. ^ Larkin, Colin (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music. Virgin. p. 475. ISBN 9780753501597. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  7. ^ Yanow, Scott, "Point of View > Review", Allmusic, Rovi Corporation, retrieved July 21, 2010


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