Cassandra Wilson

Since Miles Davis' death, in 1991, there have been more than a dozen tepid album-length
tributes to the jazz avatar. Cassandra Wilson's Traveling Miles actually has something to do
with its subject: It's moody, full of voodoo and shaped by the austere restraint that was a
Davis trademark. Jazz singer Wilson learned the art of understatement by listening to Davis.
She knows how to be patient -- she can say more with one whispery sigh than m... More >