Days Aweigh
{{Infobox album
| name = Days Aweigh
| type = studio
| artist = Cassandra Wilson
| cover = Days Aweigh.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1987
| recorded = May 1987
| venue =
| studio = Systems Two, Brooklyn.
| genre = Jazz
| length = 51:58
| label = JMT JMT 870012
| producer = Stefan F. Winter, Steve Coleman, Cassandra Wilson
| prev_title = Point of View
| prev_year = 1986
| next_title = Blue Skies
| next_year = 1988
}}
Days Aweigh is the second studio album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson.{{cite book |last1=Giddins |first1=Gary |title=Visions of Jazz: The First Century |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199879533 |page=[https://archive.org/details/visionsofjazzfir0000gidd_k9c0/page/643 643] |url=https://archive.org/details/visionsofjazzfir0000gidd_k9c0 |url-access=registration |quote=Days Aweigh (Cassandra Wilson album). |accessdate=26 September 2019 |language=en}} It was originally released on the JMT label in 1987 and later rereleased on Winter & Winter.Shimada, T., [http://www.kt.rim.or.jp/~tfj/jazz/JMT.html JMT label discography], accessed September 26, 2014
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r150325}}
| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite web |last1=Larkin|first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofp008lark/page/5870/mode/2up?q=cassandra+wilson |publisher=archive.org |accessdate=7 August 2020 |page=5871|language=en}}
| rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD
| rev3score={{rating|2.5|4}}{{cite web |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD |url=https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_3/page/752/mode/2up?q=masekela |publisher=archive.org |accessdate=7 August 2020 |page=1589|language=en}}
| rev4 = The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music
}}
AllMusic's Scott Yanow stated that "this is advanced free funk dance music."
Track listing
All tracks composed by Cassandra Wilson; except where indicated
- "Electromagnolia" (Olu Dara, Cassandra Wilson) – 4:45
- "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin) – 2:31
- "Days Aweigh" (Jean-Paul Bourelly) – 3:27
- "Subatomic Blues" – 4:34
- "Apricots on Their Wings" (Henry Threadgill) – 5:49
- "If You Only Know How" – 5:07
- "You Belong to You" – 4:55
- "Some Other Time" (Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 5:12
- "Black and Yellow" (Rod Williams) – 5:38
Personnel
- Cassandra Wilson – vocals, guitar
- Jean-Paul Bourelly – guitar
- Steve Coleman – percussion, saxophone
- Mark Johnson – drums
- Olu Dara – cornet, vocals
- Graham Haynes – trumpet
- Kenny Davis – bass
- Kevin Bruce – bass
- Rod Williams – piano, synthesizer
Production notes:
- Steve Coleman – producer
- Cassandra Wilson – producer
- Stefan F. Winter – executive producer
- Joe Marciano – engineer
- Adrian Von Ripka – mastering
- Henry Threadgill – arranger
- Joseph Gasu Rittenberg – photography, cover design
- Günter Mattei – cover design
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