A Tribute: Live! Jazz at Lincoln Center

A Tribute: Live! Jazz at Lincoln Center
~ Sweet Honey in the Rock (Artist)

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The internationally acclaimed, award-winning female African-American a cappella group Sweet Honey In The Rock has followed its adventurous spirit and undertaken the challenge of honoring some of the seminal songs that first inspired its unique blend of folk, blues, jazz, gospel and ethnic music in a concert presentation utilizing an instrumental backing trio for the first time in its career, now approaching its fourth decade. Upping the ante, the singers decided to perform this special program at New York s prestigious Jazz at Lincoln Center venue and to record their two-night appearance there.

In the opening moments of their new 2-CD 2013 release, A Tribute Live! Jazz at Lincoln Center, Sweet Honey member Ysaye Barnwell recites a roll-call of some of the great female African-American vocalists whose songs helped shape the group and comprise much of Tribute s repertoire, including Abbey Lincoln, Odetta, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba, Carmen McRae, Bessie Smith, and Sarah Vaughan.

The songs on this recording, the band s first new release in six years and 22nd overall, are drawn from those two shows at Jazz at Lincoln Center s Rose Hall in April 2011. Adorned with new arrangements by Sweet Honey s members, there are jazz standards, gospel/civil rights anthems, Afro-centric songs, show tunes, blues, and a salsa-flavored original.

Sweet Honey In The Rock s distinctive swirl of a cappella vocals, encompassing waves of imaginative ensemble harmonies and occasional solo showcases, is heard unaccompanied, aside from the quintet s hand percussion, on about half of the songs. Interwoven throughout the presentation are the understated instrumental contributions of the trio nicknamed the Honey Men, who augment Sweet Honey s exhilarating, soulful voices and confident, genre-crossing dexterity.

Founded in 1973, Sweet Honey In The Rock has established itself as an inspiring, empowering musical force worldwide.

• Rank: #3022 in Music
• Released on: 2013-02-26
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .50" h x 5.75" w x 5.00" l, .25 pounds

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Jim Seeley: Jim Seeley (trumpet); Arturo O'Farrill (piano, electric piano, keyboards).Personnel: Jim Seeley; Andy Gonzalez (acoustic bass, double bass); Phoenix Rivera, Phoenix Rivera (drums, percussion); Jed Levy (flute, tenor saxophone).Audio Mixers: Jim Seeley; Kato Hideki.Liner Note Authors: Jim Seeley; Arturo O'Farrill.Recording information: OK Studio, Brooklyn, NY (2003).Ensemble: Arturo O'Farrill.Although trumpeter Jim Seeley co-leads the quintet on this Zoho CD with pianist Arturo O'Farrill, he is very much the dominant force. Seeley contributed all eight selections and is the most memorable soloist in the group. The music includes a tribute to Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers ("Truth Juice"), a few funky jazz pieces, the straight-ahead blues "New Meaning," and a brief unaccompanied trumpet solo ("Child's Toy"). Seeley teams up with the underrated tenor saxophonist and flutist Jed Levy and the rhythm section of the Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Orchestra (pianist O'Farrill, bassist Andy Gonzalez, and drummer

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Audio Mixer: Bill Schnee.Liner Note Author: Terry Teachout.Recording information: Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, New York, NY (07/23/2012); Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (07/23/2012).Photographers: Kevin Thomas Garcia; Kat Hennessey.Morgan James Live from Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola features the up-and-coming Broadway vocalist performing a tribute to legendary jazz singer/pianist Nina Simone. Recorded in July of 2012 at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, which is part of Lincoln Center in New York City, the concert features James backed by a top-notch group of NYC-based musicians including drummer Clarence Penn, guitarist Doug Wamble, pianist David Cook, saxophonist Don Braden, and others. James is primarily known for her appearances in such Broadway musicals as the revival of Godspell and the original cast of Frank Wildhorn's Wonderland, among others. Here, James turns her crisp yet soulful Juilliard-trained chops toward Simone's sultry jazz and R&B-inflected material. Included are such songs as "I Put a Spell on You," "Don't Let Me B

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Audio Mixer: Bill Schnee.Liner Note Author: Terry Teachout.Recording information: Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, New York, NY (07/23/2012); Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (07/23/2012).Photographers: Kevin Thomas Garcia; Kat Hennessey.Morgan James Live from Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola features the up-and-coming Broadway vocalist performing a tribute to legendary jazz singer/pianist Nina Simone. Recorded in July of 2012 at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, which is part of Lincoln Center in New York City, the concert features James backed by a top-notch group of NYC-based musicians including drummer Clarence Penn, guitarist Doug Wamble, pianist David Cook, saxophonist Don Braden, and others. James is primarily known for her appearances in such Broadway musicals as the revival of Godspell and the original cast of Frank Wildhorn's Wonderland, among others. Here, James turns her crisp yet soulful Juilliard-trained chops toward Simone's sultry jazz and R&B-inflected material. Included are such songs as "I Put a Spell on You," "Don't Let Me B