Release Date: 24 April 2020
Label: Origin Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 805558278921
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
For the second installment of an ambitious five-CD project, undertaken to observe his fiftieth birthday, master bassist Rodney Whitaker convenes a world-class sextet to pay homage to the oeuvre of Duke Ellington. It's a subject that Whitaker came to know intimately during his 9-year tenure with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, regarding it as his Ph.D in Ellingtonia through performance, deep study, and spirited conversation with Wynton Marsalis and bandmates through those years. With a front line of modern jazz masters - Brian Lynch, Michael Dease and Diego Rivera, the fiery, modern aesthetic of drummer Karriem Riggins, along with pianist Richard Roe and vocals by Rockelle Fortin, Whitaker celebrates the timelessness of Ellington's works by allowing them to live and breathe through the freewheeling, "cutting session" atmosphere he created for the session.
"The variety is broad and the band itself can blow up a storm!" DAVE ROGERS, WTJU
Tracklisting
Xose Miguelez
Joachim Mencel, Steve Cardenas, Scott Colley & Rudy Royston
Thomas Marriott, Orrin Evans, Luques Curtis & Mark Whitfield Jr
Ted Moore Trio
Jared Hall
Meridian Odyssey
Ben Patterson, Shawn Purcell, Chris Ziemba, Paul Henry, Todd Harrison
Brent Jensen
Jordan VanHemert, David Alvarez III, Rodney Whitaker
Nathan Borton, Xavier Davis, Rodney Whitaker, Keith Hall
Rodney Whitaker
Rodney Whitaker
Rodney Whitaker
Rodney Whitaker
Rodney Whitaker
