Terence Blanchard - A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)
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Artist: Terence BlanchardBrand: BLANCHARD,TERENCE
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-08-14
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Ghost of Congo Square
- Levees
- Wading Through
- Ashe'
- In Time of Need
- Ghost of Betsy
- The Water
- Mantra Intro
- Mantra
- Over There
- Ghost of 1927
- Funeral Dirge
- Dear Mom
Music reviews of A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)
Music Review: Agreed that this essential component of any collection
Rating: 5 Stars
I'm sure there is nothing new to say in this review, but this is for the sake of fortifying the five stars this album consistently garners. At the four year anniversary of the Katrina catastrophe, this still stands as the one timeless work of art to come out of the Katrina aftermath. It is hard to classify this album as just jazz, but as perhaps an American symphonic masterpiece that can stand up to the classics. Much of the composition consists of a sort of jazz orchestra with a very strong modern New Orleans influence along with the typical Afro-Caribbean that accompanies the New Orleans sound. Additionally, many classic jazz influences, such as Miles Davis, are heard throughout the album.
The works form this album will haunt you just as recollections of the Katrina photographs and videos (and perhaps firsthand experience) may. The powerful hymns of "Wading through", "Ashe", "In Time of Need" and "Funeral Dirge" can potentially just bring you to tears within seconds. Perhaps the only criticism that can be lain on this album is that it can only be listened to in solitude, due to the emotionality it may provoke in the listener. This album deserved more Grammy wins than it did, but regardless it will stand up for generations.
Description of A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans native son Terence Blanchard has created an impassioned song cycle, A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina), as his third album for Blue Note Records. (Since signing with the label in 2003, Blanchard has released two other critically-acclaimed albums, Bounce and Flow, the latter of which received two Grammy nominations in 2006. This 13-track emotional tour-de-force of anger, rage, compassion, melancholy, and beauty features Blanchard's quintet- pianist Aaron Parks, saxophonist Brice Winston, bassist Derrick Hodge, drummer Kendrick Scott- as well as a 40-member string orchestra.An important jumpstart for A Tale of God's Will was director Spike Lee's decision to document the aftermath of Katrina on film, in what turned out to be the four-hour award-winning HBO documentary, When the Levees Broke, which aired last year. Lee, who has enlisted Blanchard on numerous occasions to score his films, such as Mo' Better Blues, Malcolm X, and Inside Man, tapped him once again for his documentary. Four of the tracks from the documentary were given new arrangements and expanded rounding out an album of nine new tracks inspired by New Orleans during and after Hurricane 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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