Jeremy Pelt: Griot: This Is Important! auf CD
Griot: This Is Important!
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
(soweit verfügbar beim Lieferanten)
- Label:
- High Note
- Aufnahmejahr ca.:
- 2020
- Artikelnummer:
- 10408399
- UPC/EAN:
- 0632375734121
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 5.3.2021
Product Information
It is only natural that Jeremy Pelt‘s voracious curiosity would
lead him to investigate the West African Griot tradition where
stories, reminiscences and accomplishments from times
past are handed down as oral histories. Researchers such
as Art Taylor, William Russell and Alan Lomax have preserved
interviews with older jazzmen but for his Griot odyssey,
Pelt turns to his own peer group to record their thoughts on
creating jazz, playing jazz and experiencing the life of a jazz
musician of color in our own time.
Each brief interview is
followed by a composition by Pelt which perfectly captures
the sentiments and emotions of its spoken-word prelude. To
help him bring his vision to life, Pelt has assembled a handpicked group of colleagues, featuring vibraphonist Chien
Chien Lu, pianist Victor Gould, bassist Vicente Archer, harpist
Brandee Younger and others. The tunes themselves run the
gamut from the remarkable mixing of the sacred and the
secular in “Carry Christ Wherever You Are,” to the Monk-like
gallumphing opening unison in “Don‘t Dog the Source,” and
the urgent, “Underdog.”
As Pelt himself says, “I want people
to understand that this is for everybody,” that the project was
undertaken to perhaps help them “understand that whatever
they might be going through, their perspectives might run
parallel to those of people who are generations apart from
them. Maybe, to a certain extent, these younger people will
find themselves in these stories.
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Tracklisting
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Intro (Words by Jeremy Pelt) (Music with Commentary)
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2 Words by Paul West (Spoken Commentary)
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3 Carry Christ Wherever You Are (Instrumental)
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4 Words by Larry Willis (Spoken Commentary)
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5 Underdog (Instrumental)
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6 Words by JD Allen (Spoken Commentary)
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7 Don't Dog the Source (Instrumental)
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8 Words by Bertha Hope (Spoken Commentary)
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9 A Seat at the Table (Words by Bertha Hope) (Music with Commentary)
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10 Words by Harold Mabern (Spoken Commentary) [Explicit]
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11 Solidarity (Instrumental)
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12 Words by René Marie (Spoken Commentary) [Explicit]
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13 A Beautiful (F*cking) Lie (Instrumental)
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14 In Spite of... (Words by Warren Smith) (Music with Commentary) [Explicit]
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15 Words by Ambrose Akinmusire (Spoken Commentary)
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16 Relevance (Instrumental)
