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After the Beginning Again

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{{Infobox album

| name = After the Beginning Again

| type = studio

| artist = Cassandra Wilson

| cover = After the Beginning Again.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1992

| recorded = July & August 1991

| venue =

| studio = Systems Two, Brooklyn, New York

| genre = Jazz

| length = 41:33

| label = JMT JMT 514 001

| producer = Cassandra Wilson

| prev_title = She Who Weeps

| prev_year = 1991

| next_title = Dance to the Drums Again

| next_year = 1992

}}

After the Beginning Again is the sixth studio album by the American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, released on the JMT label in 1992{{cite book |last1=Giddins |first1=Gary |title=Visions of Jazz: The First Century |date=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199715206 |page=645 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VfhoAgAAQBAJ&dq=After+the+Beginning+Again+-+cassandra+wilson&pg=PA645 |accessdate=15 January 2019}} and later rereleased on Winter & Winter.Shimada, T., [http://www.kt.rim.or.jp/~tfj/jazz/JMT.html JMT label discography]. Retrieved September 26, 2014

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000626332}}

| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin|first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofp008lark/page/5870/mode/2up?q=cassandra+wilson |accessdate=7 August 2020 |page=5871}}

| rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD

| rev3score={{rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last=Cook |first=Richard |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD |url=https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_3/page/1589/mode/2up?q=masekela |accessdate=7 August 2020 |page=1589}}

| rev4 = The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide

| rev4score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Swenson |first1=John |title=The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Random House |url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swens |url-access=registration |quote=Blue Skies (Cassandra Wilson album) |accessdate=23 September 2019}}

}}

AllMusic's Steve Leggett wrote, "When compared to her more mature mid-'90s Blue Note releases, After the Beginning Again sounds much busier, but a listener is left with the nagging feeling that this busyness is covering for the fact that nothing is really going anywhere in particular. Wilson in time would correct all this and grow wonderfully into her material, but on this outing her focus is not quite there yet." The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD wrote that the album was "one of her strongest studio dates", praised "There She Goes" as a "haunting tune", and described the rendition of "Baubles, Bangles, & Beads" as "memorably downcast".

Track listing

All compositions by Cassandra Wilson except as indicated

  1. "There She Goes" - 4:08
  2. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen) - 6:01
  3. "Yazoo Moon" (James Weidman, Cassandra Wilson) - 4:27
  4. "Sweet Black Night" (Kevin Bruce Harris) - 5:06
  5. "My Corner of the Sky" - 5:38
  6. "Baubles, Bangles, & Beads" (Alexander Borodin, George Forrest, Robert Wright) - 6:39
  7. "Redbone" - 4:24
  8. "Summer Wind" (Weidman, Wilson) - 5:34

Personnel

  • Cassandra Wilson – vocals
  • James Weidman – piano, synthesizers
  • Kevin Bruce Harris – electric bass guitar
  • Mark Johnson – drums, percussion
  • Jeff Haynes – percussion

References

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Category:1992 albums

Category:Cassandra Wilson albums

Category:Winter & Winter Records albums

Category:JMT Records albums