17.09.2011.

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WYNTON MARSALIS & ERIC CLAPTON - Play the Blues: Live From Jazz At Lincoln Center (2011)

Wynton Marsalis says he wanted last April's Lincoln Centre blues collaborations with Eric Clapton "to sound like people playing music they know and love, not like a project". Marsalis knew all too well that such a meeting could sound like a opportunistic marketing ploy. In the event, he gave the English guitarist an ideal setting in which to experiment with jazz by touching the nerve that connects many British blues-rockers of Clapton's generation to the trad-jazz and bluesy skiffle movement of the 1950s. Set to the eloquent polyphony of an early 20th-century New Orleans jazz band, classics such as Careless Love and Just a Closer Walk With Thee (the latter also featuring a rasping Taj Mahal) join bluesy road songs such as Joliet Bound, a New Orleans swing account of Louis Armstrong's Ice Cream and a boogieing Kidman Blues. Clapton's own Layla gets a slow-dirge treatment over solemn drums, the guitarist's canny links and fills throughout the set are often more absorbing than his solos. Meanwhile, the graceful improv inventiveness of Marsalis and his inspired clarinetist Victor Goines make almost all their interventions and ensemble contributions a delight. These are not heart-wrenching blues performances, but they're very happily executed and devoted ones. - guardian.co.uk

01. Ice Cream – Howard Johnson/Robert King/Billy Moll
02. Forty-Four – Chester Burnett/Howlin’ Wolf
03. Joe Turner’s Blues – W.C. Handy
04. The Last Time – Bill Ewing/Sara Martin
05. Careless Love – W.C. Handy/Martha E. Koenig/Spencer Williams
06. Kidman Blues – “Big Maceo” Merriweather
07. Layla – Eric Clapton/Jim Gordon
08, Joliet Bound – “Kansas Joe” McCoy/”Memphis Minnie” McCoy
09. Just A Closer Walk With Thee (with Taj Mahal) – Traditional
10. Corrine, Corrina (with Taj Mahal) – Bo Chatmon/Mitchell Parish/J. Mayo Williams