(Straight-Ahead Jazz, Post-Bop) [WEB] Jimmy Greene (with Christian McBride, Kenny Barron, Cyrus Chestnut, Pat Metheny, Renee Rosnes, Kurt Elling a.o.) - Beautiful Life - 2014, FLAC (tracks), lossless
![(Straight-Ahead Jazz, Post-Bop) [WEB] Jimmy Greene (with Christian McBride, Kenny Barron, Cyrus Chestnut, Pat Metheny, Renee Rosnes, Kurt Elling a.o.) - Beautiful Life - 2014, FLAC (tracks), lossless](/upload/000/u2/e8/32/straight-ahead-jazz-post-bop-web-jimmy-greene-with-christi.jpg "(Straight-Ahead Jazz, Post-Bop) [WEB] Jimmy Greene (with Christian McBride, Kenny Barron, Cyrus Chestnut, Pat Metheny, Renee Rosnes, Kurt Elling a.o.) - Beautiful Life - 2014, FLAC (tracks), lossless")
Треклист:
J I M M Y G R E E N E
B E A U T I F U L L I F E
Жанр: Straight-Ahead Jazz, Post-Bop
Год издания: 2014
Издатель (лейбл): Mack Avenue Records
Номер по каталогу: 1093
Страна исполнителя (группы): USA
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 49:10
Источник (релизер): WEB (спасибо numnumjuice)
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: нет
Треклист:
1. Saludos / Come Thou Almighty King
2. Last Summer
3. When I Come Home
4. Ana's Way
5. Your Great Name
6. Where Is the Love?
7. Seventh Candle
8. Maybe
9. Prayer
10. Little Voices
Jimmy Greene - tenor & soprano saxophones
Renee Rosnes - piano
Christian McBride - bass
Lewis Nash - drums
guests
Kenny Barron - piano (6, 8)
Cyrus Chestnut - piano (9)
Pat Metheny - guitar (1)
Javier Colon - vocals (3)
Kurt Elling - vocals (4)
Latanya Farrell - vocals (9)
Anika Noni Rose - spoken words (10)
Hartford Symphony Orchestra (3, 9)
Linden Christian School choir (4, 10)
Jonathan DuBose - guitar
Альбом очень интимно-лирический, т.к. посвящен памяти 6-летней дочери Грина Ане, которая была убита в числе других 26 человек в школе Сэнди Хук 14.12.2012.
B E A U T I F U L L I F E
Жанр: Straight-Ahead Jazz, Post-Bop
Год издания: 2014
Издатель (лейбл): Mack Avenue Records
Номер по каталогу: 1093
Страна исполнителя (группы): USA
Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 49:10
Источник (релизер): WEB (спасибо numnumjuice)
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: нет
Треклист:
1. Saludos / Come Thou Almighty King
2. Last Summer
3. When I Come Home
4. Ana's Way
5. Your Great Name
6. Where Is the Love?
7. Seventh Candle
8. Maybe
9. Prayer
10. Little Voices
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Об альбоме
It’s painful, honestly, to peer into the sleeve of Jimmy Greene’s Beautiful Life CD and see the images of a smiling, angelic little girl, full of joy and promise, knowing that her young life was snuffed out in a senseless mass killing of children that recently shook a great nation. So it’s unimaginable how that reality must have impacted Greene, the father of this girl named Ana Márquez-Greene. The long-term answer to that, however, comes from the music contained in that sleeve.
Jimmy Greene is a jazz saxophonist and composer, and a gifted one at that; we knew this from the impressions his 2009 release Mission Statement had left us. The faith and spirituality he conveyed on that album got put to the test on that fateful day at Sandy Hook Elementary, but those things about him remain intact. Beautiful Life (out on November 25, 2014 via Mack Avenue Records) is his ultimate response to the tragedy, and he summons up both his skills as a musician and his strong inner spirit to make this record. He also summons a few of his notable friends, too.
This isn’t music made with tears, but with a love that reaches beyond mortality, as Beautiful Life is less of an eulogy and more of a quiet celebration — the celebration of Ana’s six years, eight months and ten days on Earth. There’s no anguish here, just music made with supportive and graceful musicianship by performers who are very capable of rising up to the task.
We don’t really know Ana, of course, but her father gives us a pretty good idea through these songs. The happy-go-lucky swinging strut of “Last Summer,” the almost lullaby-like pure tone and expression of Greene’s tenor (with Kenny Barron’s sympathetic accompaniment) on “Where Is Love?” and the buoyancy of Christian McBride’s bass solo on “Seventh Candle” all give us a window into her young soul without the need for any words.
Words do play a part, though. “Ana’s got a way about her,” Greene assures us through the eminent jazz vocalist Kurt Elling on “Ana’s Way,” a lyrical adaptation of Greene’s Mission Statement original “Ana Grace.” That ‘way’ is magnified by backing from a children’s choir, comprised of former classmates of Ana’s and her brother Isaiah — who survived Sandy Hook. “Her life teaches us a lesson,” they sing.
Ana herself sings, too; she’s heard from a home recording of her jubilant voice that opens “Saludos,” followed by a solemn strain mainly performed by Greene’s dignified sax, played alongside Pat Metheny’s acoustic guitar. At the end of Greene and Metheny’s sweet duet is a segue into a rendition of “Come Thou Almighty King,” performed at the Greene household by Isaiah on piano with Ana singing the lyrics. The solace that Greene has long found in his Christian faith comes to the fore on “Prayer,” featuring another fine pianist Cyrus Chestnut and the words of the Lord’s Prayer sung with an elegant flow by Latanya Farrell.
The lesson that Ana’s life teaches us, Greene reveals, is that while we fixate on the profoundly grotesque, there’s beauty all around us — the beauty that comes from a child’s smile, wonderment and innocence. He and his family endured their share of grief and sense of loss, to be sure, but the Jimmy Greene that emerged for these recordings is at peace, and grateful for the short time he had shared with Ana. Jimmy Greene signs off his liner notes with a confidently triumphant pair of words:
“Love wins.”
(S. Victor Aaron, somethingelsereviews.com)
Jimmy Greene is a jazz saxophonist and composer, and a gifted one at that; we knew this from the impressions his 2009 release Mission Statement had left us. The faith and spirituality he conveyed on that album got put to the test on that fateful day at Sandy Hook Elementary, but those things about him remain intact. Beautiful Life (out on November 25, 2014 via Mack Avenue Records) is his ultimate response to the tragedy, and he summons up both his skills as a musician and his strong inner spirit to make this record. He also summons a few of his notable friends, too.
This isn’t music made with tears, but with a love that reaches beyond mortality, as Beautiful Life is less of an eulogy and more of a quiet celebration — the celebration of Ana’s six years, eight months and ten days on Earth. There’s no anguish here, just music made with supportive and graceful musicianship by performers who are very capable of rising up to the task.
We don’t really know Ana, of course, but her father gives us a pretty good idea through these songs. The happy-go-lucky swinging strut of “Last Summer,” the almost lullaby-like pure tone and expression of Greene’s tenor (with Kenny Barron’s sympathetic accompaniment) on “Where Is Love?” and the buoyancy of Christian McBride’s bass solo on “Seventh Candle” all give us a window into her young soul without the need for any words.
Words do play a part, though. “Ana’s got a way about her,” Greene assures us through the eminent jazz vocalist Kurt Elling on “Ana’s Way,” a lyrical adaptation of Greene’s Mission Statement original “Ana Grace.” That ‘way’ is magnified by backing from a children’s choir, comprised of former classmates of Ana’s and her brother Isaiah — who survived Sandy Hook. “Her life teaches us a lesson,” they sing.
Ana herself sings, too; she’s heard from a home recording of her jubilant voice that opens “Saludos,” followed by a solemn strain mainly performed by Greene’s dignified sax, played alongside Pat Metheny’s acoustic guitar. At the end of Greene and Metheny’s sweet duet is a segue into a rendition of “Come Thou Almighty King,” performed at the Greene household by Isaiah on piano with Ana singing the lyrics. The solace that Greene has long found in his Christian faith comes to the fore on “Prayer,” featuring another fine pianist Cyrus Chestnut and the words of the Lord’s Prayer sung with an elegant flow by Latanya Farrell.
The lesson that Ana’s life teaches us, Greene reveals, is that while we fixate on the profoundly grotesque, there’s beauty all around us — the beauty that comes from a child’s smile, wonderment and innocence. He and his family endured their share of grief and sense of loss, to be sure, but the Jimmy Greene that emerged for these recordings is at peace, and grateful for the short time he had shared with Ana. Jimmy Greene signs off his liner notes with a confidently triumphant pair of words:
“Love wins.”
(S. Victor Aaron, somethingelsereviews.com)
Состав
Jimmy Greene - tenor & soprano saxophones
Renee Rosnes - piano
Christian McBride - bass
Lewis Nash - drums
guests
Kenny Barron - piano (6, 8)
Cyrus Chestnut - piano (9)
Pat Metheny - guitar (1)
Javier Colon - vocals (3)
Kurt Elling - vocals (4)
Latanya Farrell - vocals (9)
Anika Noni Rose - spoken words (10)
Hartford Symphony Orchestra (3, 9)
Linden Christian School choir (4, 10)
Jonathan DuBose - guitar