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Peanuts Whalum
1+ albums
jazz
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There I was sitting with my uncle Peanuts, whos literally a legend in a kind of musical microcosm... someone whos played with Nat King Cole, Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald. Once I asked David Sanborn if he knew him and he said, Of course I do. Who doesnt know Peanuts Whalum? So my resolution this year was, I am going to somehow document what my Uncle Peanuts does To have him sit there and play songs for me Oh goodness. It was such an experience! It was hard for me to concentrate on what I was doing. Everything he played I loved. 90% of the songs I didnt know. I thought I knew a lot of Jazz standards--- but, around someone like him, you know nothing. This man is a giant hes a five foot five giant. - Kirk Whalum In the category of Talent Deserving Wider Recognition and Best Kept Musical Secret, Hugh Peanuts Whalum shines with unparalleled brightness. On his self-titled debut on Rendezvous Entertainment, the singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist stamps pop, swing, jazz, blues and gospel standards, underexposed classics and inspired originals with his exquisite vocal sensibilities and instrumental savvy, playing both piano and tenor saxophone. Spanning decades and crossing genres and generations, the 75-years-young Peanuts musicality and sensitivity find perfect expression on the 10 tracks of an album that is both timeless and classic. Produced by his nephew, Kirk Whalum (the chart-topping, No. 1-selling saxophonist who has been relentlessly occupying the top of the char
