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| 1. | I'll Remember April
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| 2. | All the Things You Are
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| 3. | Two Bass Hit
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| 4. | Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
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| 5. | It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing
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| 6. | Prayer
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| 7. | Plenty Swing, Plenty Soul
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Jazz
Two Pianos Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Cyrus Chestnut Liner Notes, Piano
Desmond Prass Associate Producer
Dezron Douglas Bass
Eric Reed Piano, Liner Notes
Frank Stewart Photography
Jedimaster Engineer
Joe Fields Executive Producer
Katherine Miller Mixing, Mastering
Keiji Obata Design
R. Andrew Lepley Cover Photo
Roland "Rolando" Chassagne Associate Producer
Russ Musto Liner Notes
Todd Barkan Producer
Willie Jones III Drums
When you think of hard-driving swing, daring expression, sophistication and elegance in artistry, formidable technique and a thunderous sound, there are only a very small handful of contemporary pianists you think of and two of them are on this recording! Cyrus Chestnut comes across as a shy and modest guy who does most of his talking with a keyboard. He's played all over, and with some of the biggest names in music. Much the same can be said of Eric Reed. Eric, like Cyrus has played with a virtual Who's Who of jazz including Wynton Marsalis, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Freddie Hubbard and others. Captured live in the rarely-encountered two-piano format, Eric and Cyrus offer seven selections featuring twenty digits on 176 keys. As the title says, there is PLENTY SWING, PLENTY SOUL and certainly enough jazz adorned with utterly uninhibited improvisations, flashes of pop and bop, whimsy and wit to please the most discriminating of jazz aficionados.
Eric Reed
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Born: Jun 21, 1970 in Philadelphia, PA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Christmas, Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz, Holidays, Straight-Ahead Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz
Pianist Eric Reed is one of a growing number of talented musicians who have emerged from Wynton Marsalis' bands to pursue rewarding solo careers in their own right. Born in Philadelphia in 1970, Reed's first exposure to music came through his father, a minister and local gospel singer; he began playing piano at age two and soon discovered jazz, quickly developing into a musical prodigy. He entered music school at age seven, and resisted classical training in favor of jazz, inspired early on by Dave Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis, Art Blakey, and Horace Silver. Four years later, he moved with his family to Los Angeles, where he digested enough jazz history that he was able to begin playing around the city's jazz scene as a teenager, both as a leader and a sideman for the likes of Gerald Wilson, Teddy Edwards, John Clayton, and Clora Bryant. He first met Wynton Marsalis at age 17, and toured briefly with the trumpeter the following year (his first and only at Cal State-Northridge). In 1989, Reed officially joined Marsalis' band as the replacement for Marcus Roberts; the following year, he issued his debut album as a leader, A Soldier's Hymn, on Candid, with backing by his regular trio of bassist Dwayne Burno and drummer Gregory Hutchinson.
Over 1991-1992, Reed worked with Freddie Hubbard and Joe Henderson as a sidelight, returning to Marsalis' group by the end of 1992. He cut a pair of well-received albums for MoJazz, It's All Right to Swing and The Swing and I, during 1993-1994, and in 1995 embarked on his first tour as leader of his own group. Two more dates for Impulse!, 1996's Musicale and 1997's Pure Imagination, found his style maturing and his critical and commercial success growing; he also spent 1996-1998 playing with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. 1999's Manhattan Melodies, his first outing for Verve, was a colorful and sophisticated tribute to New York City; that year, he also undertook the most prominent of several film-scoring projects, the Eddie MurphyMartin Lawrence comedy Life. Reed also continued to record with Marsalis up into the new millennium. 2001 brought the acclaimed Happiness on Nagel-Heyer, and the next year saw two releases, the well-received From My Heart and a duet album with frequent cohort Wycliffe Gordon on trombone, We.
---Steve Huey, All Music Guide
Cyrus Chestnut
Active Decades: '60s, '90s and '00s
Born: Jan 17, 1963 in Baltimore, MD
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Christmas, Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz, Holidays, Straight-Ahead Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz
Cyrus Chestnut first studied piano with his father at the age of five, with official lessons beginning two years later. By the age of nine, he was enrolled in the prep program at the Peabody Institute. He graduated from Berklee with a degree in jazz composition and arranging. Chestnut took his time, working with a number of top-notch musicians (Jon Hendricks, Betty Carter, Terence Blanchard, and Donald Harrison) before finally recording his first solo CD at the age of 30. Chestnut enjoys mixing styles and resists being typecast in any one niche, though his gospel sound is apparent on a number of his recordings. His initial dates as a leader were recorded for the Japanese label Alfa (reissued on Evidence), and he became an Atlantic artist in 1994. A self-titled LP followed in 1998 with Tribute to Duke Ellington following a year later. In subsequent years, Chestnut remained busy, releasing Charlie Brown Christmas in 2000, the all-original Soul Food in 2001, You Are My Sunshine in 2003, Genuine Chestnut in 2006, and Cyrus Plays Elvis in 2007. The following year, he released Black Nile on Japan's M&I label.
---Ken Dryden, All Music Guide |
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