Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton

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SIDEMEN Wynton Marsalis (trumpet), Eric Clapton (guitar, vocal), Dan Nimmer (piano), Carlos Henriquez (bass), Ali Jackson (drums), Marcus Printup (trumpet), Victor Goines (clarinet), Chris Crenshaw (trombone, vocals), Don Vappie (banjo), Chris Stainton (keyboard). DESCRIPTION New York City’s premier jazz venue got the blues last April when Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton performed together in Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center for two sold-out shows dedicated to vintage blues. The extraordinary collaboration, billed as Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues, paired these musical virtuosos with members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra as they brought to life a repertoire of songs selected by Clapton and arranged by Marsalis. LINER NOTES When Louis Armstrong was asked about different forms of popular music in the mid-1960′s, he responded, “…all these different kinds of fantastic music you hear today – course it’s all guitars now – I used to hear that way back in the old sanctified churches where the sisters used to shout till their petticoats fell down.” He was not attempting to navigate the generation gap. Pops was acknowledging the foundational experiences that inform all ‘rhythm section’ music. He was contextualizing a heritage that includes the Irish jig, West African musical traditions, the English Hymn, and the Negro spirituals synthesized and focused into one transcendent form: the blues. When Eric Clapton and I fir

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Play the Blues: Live From Jazz At Lincoln Center

Play The Blues - Live From Jazz At Lincoln Center

Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton Play the Blues (Live from Jazz At Lincoln Center)

Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues (Live from Jazz At Lincoln Center)

Play The Blues Live From Jazz At Lincoln Center

Play The Blues

Wynton Marsalis And Eric Clapton Play The Blues Live From Jazz At Lincoln Center

Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues: Live From Jazz At Lincoln Center

Play The Blues [Live] [Bonus Track]

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Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play The Blues - Live From Jazz At Lincoln Center

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Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues

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Play the Blues: Live From Jazz

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