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- SKU: SMT-572
- Format: CD
- UPC: 099402572925
- Street Date: 07/01/12
- PreBook Date: 01/01/01
- Label: Summit Records »
- Genre: Jazz
- Run Time: 40 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2012
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: WORLD
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Jack Wilkins - The Blue & Green Project
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For this project critically acclaimed saxophonist and composer Jack Wilkins researched Appalachian Mountain culture and environment as the inspiration for a series of new compositions. The compositions combine the musical inspiration of American roots music -Blues, Gospel, Jazz, Mountain music, New Orleans traditions- (the Blue' element) with the subjective inspiration of Appalachian Mountains - the people, artists, craftsmen, traditions and environment (the Green' element).
"The Blue & Green Project offers a paradigm modeled on good cheer, clear-sighted vision, hope and impressive musicianship, intimating a top-shelf selection for 2011.'' -Jazzreview.com
''Wilkins is a tough roving tenorist, and his conceptions vary from track to track. There's little that is self-consciously folkish in this Jazz suite where Green stands for the natural world and Blue the insinuating influence of Jazz and world musics. I especially liked TWO VIEWS OF THE MOUNTAIN, which suggested a barn dance taken to a basement Greenwich Village Jazz club, the mournful Mingus-tinged 25 CENTS, and the second-line New Orleans BLACK BUCKET STOMP, energetic and creative throughout.'' -CADENCE MAGAZINE
TRACK LISTING:
1. Song of the Anvil(7:33)
2. Death Rattle(3:30)
3. Two Views of the Mountain(11:54)
4. Mountain Watercolors(13:33)
5. River Run(10:11)
6. That 25 Cents That You Paid(6:48)
7. Black Bucket Stomp(4:08)
8. Front Porch Jam [Radio Edit](4:27)
