Rodney Whitaker: All Too Soon - COMPACT DISCS

Rodney Whitaker: All Too Soon - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

All Too Soon

Artist:

Rodney Whitaker

Label:

Origin Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

805558278921

Genre:

Jazz

Release Date:

2019-10-18

Number of Discs:

1

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.

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