A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)
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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Album information
| Release Date (USA): |
2007-08-14 |
| Release Date (UK): |
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| Artist/s: |
Terence Blanchard |
| Label: |
Blue Note Records |
Track Listing
| 1 |
Ghost of Congo Square |
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| 2 |
Levees |
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| 3 |
Wading Through |
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| 4 |
Ashe' |
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| 5 |
In Time of Need |
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| 6 |
Ghost of Betsy |
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| 7 |
The Water |
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| 8 |
Mantra Intro |
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| 9 |
Mantra |
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| 10 |
Over There |
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| 11 |
Ghost of 1927 |
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| 12 |
Funeral Dirge |
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| 13 |
Dear Mom |
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