She Who Weeps

Last updated

She Who Weeps
She Who Weeps.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 25, 1991
RecordedJuly, October, November and December 1990
StudioSystems Two, Brooklyn.
Genre jazz
Length40:14
Label JMT
JMT 834 443
Producer Cassandra Wilson, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Stefan F. Winter
Cassandra Wilson chronology
Live
(1991)
She Who Weeps
(1991)
After the Beginning Again
(1992)

She Who Weeps is the fifth studio album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson. It was released on June 25, 1991. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Writing for AllMusic, Scott Yanow described the album as a "transition of sorts" for the artist, and noted some traces of her earlier M-Base style. Overall, he called the album "Interesting but not overly memorable". [2] John Fordham of The Guardian stated: "This is Cassandra Wilson in 1990, two years after her powerful standards album Blue Skies, and three before she turned to the rootsy, blues-based folk-jazz she still pursues variations on today." [4]

Track listing

  1. "Iconic Memories" (Cassandra Wilson) – 5:07
  2. "Chelsea Bridge" (Billy Strayhorn) – 6:34
  3. "Out Loud (Jeris' Blues)" (Steve Coleman, Wilson) – 4:23
  4. "She Who Weeps" (Mary Fowlkes) – 3:31
  5. "Angel" (Carolyn Franklin, Sonny Saunders) – 4:42
  6. "Body and Soul" (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green) – 10:47
  7. "New African Blues" (Wilson) – 5:32

Personnel

Production notes

Chart positions

YearChartPosition
1991Billboard Top Jazz Albums7

References

  1. Shimada, T., JMT label discography, accessed September 26, 2014
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott, "She Who Weeps > Review", AllMusic , Rovi Corporation , retrieved July 23, 2010
  3. Larkin, Colin. "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". archive.org. p. 5871. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  4. 1 2 Fordham, John (January 9, 2004). "Cassandra Wilson, She Who Weeps". The Guardian . Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  5. Cook, Richard. "The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD". archive.org. p. 1589. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  6. Swenson, John (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. Retrieved September 23, 2019.