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Music CD - Terence Blanchard: A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)
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Music CD: A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)
Artist: Terence Blanchard
List Price: $17.98
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Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
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Tracks:
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1. Ghost of Congo Square
2. Levees
3. Wading Through
4. Ashe'
5. In Time of Need
6. Ghost of Betsy
7. The Water
8. Mantra Intro
9. Mantra
10. Over There
11. Ghost of 1927
12. Funeral Dirge
13. Dear Mom
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0094639153220
Label: Blue Note Records
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Blue Note Records
Release Date: 2007-08-14
Studio: Blue Note Records
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Summary: A Native Son Speaks.....
Comment: Terence Blanchard was born in New Orleans. You can hear it in his tone when he plays. All the influences of the former sons (Louis Armstrong, King Oliver) as well as all the Big Easy's rich cultures and heritage can be heard whenever his lips hit metal. "A Tale of God's Will" is not just another of TB's jazz albums but his own soundtrack to the horror that was Hurricane Katrina. He creates the calm before the storm, the tension, hurricane and the aftermath from one song to the next. You can almost hear the pleading and the supplications of the testimonials of Spike Lee's documentary "When the Levees Broke" (also scored by Blanchard and also featuring interviews from him). Definitely to be heard as a whole concept album but every piece no matter how essential to the next, is a voice unto itself. If you 're a fan, this is a must-have.
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Summary: beautiful and poignant
Comment: This CD speaks to the tragedy we know of as "Katrina". The music is beautiful and poignant and reminds us how far we have yet to go in this rich but most imperfect country.
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Summary: exquisite
Comment: It is beautiful, sad, haunting and ultimately hopeful. Just an exceptional piece of music.
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Summary: Wow.....
Comment: What can I say? I just heard the tune Levees on the radio off this CD, it blew me away. Period. I'm speachless.
Of course they did not announance who it was so I had to find out! I quickly got on the radio station's web site and got the name and came here and ordered the CD. I can't wait to pop it into my player and hear the whole CD. It's pretty rare these days for me to hear something new and really be taken by it. This is obviously a must buy CD.
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Summary: music: meaning, memory and enlightenment
Comment: A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)
Terence Blanchard and his colleagues have produced a moving, highly enjoyable and memorable piece of music. They have encapsulated the unique history of African American New Orleans and its cultural contributions to the world. The disaster of Katrina and of the massive, and continuing, failures of the Bush Administration to prevent the destruction of the levees and of working class New Orleans provide the context and inspiration of the music and the humanity and decency of these musicians provide the music. That they produce such memorable music is a blessing. This is a cd which should be widely distributed and heard and enjoyed.
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Editorial Reviews:
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For all the anger and devastation trumpeter Terence Blanchard has felt in the months since Hurricane Katrina ravaged his hometown of New Orleans--and the federal government failed it so shamefully--this elegiac orchestral work is remarkably clear-eyed, restrained, and, in the end, hopeful. That isn't to say pieces like "Funeral Dirge" and "Levees" don't impart deep and dark emotion. But even with strings at their back, Blanchard and the members of his first-rate working quintet (all of whom contribute compositions) never indulge in sentimentality. Blanchard's debt to Miles Davis is pronounced in his pinched lyricism and the economy of his virtuosic effects. The richly hued work washes over the listener, revealing more with each playing. --Lloyd Sachs
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