1. Oh
How I Love Jesus
2. Lift Every Voice and Sing
3. Blessed Assurance
4. Wade in the Water
5. Lean on Me
6. I Surrender All
7. Gospel Improv #1
8. Old Time Religion
9. Bridge Over Troubled Water
10. Come Sunday
11. All by All
12. All Creatures of Our God and King
13. Peace
14. The Lord’s Prayer
Personnel:
Cyrus Chestnut - solo piano
Produced by:
John Lee Executive Producer: Lisa Broderick
Price: $10.00
A compilation of
inspirational music from some of the world’s great composers
is the perfect follow-up to Cyrus Chestnut’s immensely popular
1996 album, Blessed Quietness.
“Pianist Cyrus Chestnut can do it
all. Equally adept playing with trios, groups, or
alone, he tackles a broad range of styles with both
taste and intelligence.”
— Amazon.com
“The pianist
Cyrus Chestnut is one of jazz’s most convincing
anachronisms. His brand of crisp articulation and
blues-inflected harmony evokes another era, sometime
before the ascent of Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner, to
say nothing of Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett. But
unlike the typical nostalgist, who pines for the past
partly because of a queasy discomfort with the
present, Mr. Chestnut appears comfortable with his
placement in time. What makes his music fly is a
complete security in his style, and that sense of untroubled self-assurance.”
— New York Times
• This
compilation includes Duke Ellington’s “Come Sunday,”
Paul Simon’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Bill
Withers’ “Lean On Me,” Horace Silver’s “Peace,” and
brilliant interpretations of many classic hymns,
including Dr. William Smith’s “Lift Every Voice and
Sing,” also known as the Negro National Anthem and
recognized as one of the most important musical
offerings of the Civil Rights movement. • Treating this material with
great delicacy and empathy, Chestnut’s tempos breathe
and his phrasing combines an almost surgical precision
with affecting tenderness. There isn’t a weak moment
in the collection—precisely because there isn’t a
moment in which he loses connection with the inherent
power of the music.
• Press by Don
Lucoff at DL Media. Promotion by Mike Carlson at MC
Promotions.
Born on January
17, 1963, in Baltimore, MD; son of McDonald (a retired post
office employee and church organist) and Flossie (a city
social services worker and church choir director) Soulful jazz
pianist Cyrus Chestnut might just be proof positive of the
impact that music has on babies in the womb. Either that, or a
life in music was simply in his blood. Chestnut's father, a
retired postal employee and the son of a church musician, was
the official organist for the local church in Baltimore,
Maryland, where Chestnut grew up. Young Cyrus's home was
filled with the sounds of the gospel music that his
church-going parents played in their home, along with jazz
records by artists such as Baby Cortez and Jimmy Smith.
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