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Cyrus Chestnut & Friends: A Charlie Brown Christmas
by Derek John
Good grief! That time of year is, indeed, here once again, and with it a fresh batch of seasonal CD releases. Although nothing new, a few years back it suddenly became especially vogue for many artists to cut an album of holiday favorites. The result, more often than not, has been a senseless butchering of once-classic ...
Wynton Marsalis Septet: The Marciac Suite
by C. Michael Bailey
Finally...The End. Like a lemming, I dutifully purchased each volume of Wynton Marsalis’ “Swinging Into The 21st Century”, collecting the little stickers and sticking them on the collection card, and finally, mailing that card in. In ten short weeks (two weeks longer than promised), the final installment of Marsalis’ jazz lovefest arrived on my doorstep.
Cyrus Chestnut: Blessed Quietness
by C. Michael Bailey
Seasonal Piano Pianist Cyrus Chestnut is the latest of jazz artists to release a solo piano holidays disc. Other recent and notable examples include Dave Brubeck's Christmas (Teldec 83410), Marcus Robert's Prayer for Peace (Novus 63124), and Dave McKenna's Christmas Ivory (Concord 4772). For y entertainment dollar, this Chestnut Disc and the McKenna disc are running ...
Cyrus Chestnut: Cyrus Chestnut
by Ed Kopp
Purists who believe that every jazz release should break new ground might dismiss Cyrus Chestnut's latest, but in a jazz world dominated by Coltrane and Miles disciples, I find it very refreshing.Pianist Cyrus Chestnut is influenced to some extent by Coltrane collaborator McCoy Tyner, but he also embraces stride, '50s-style bebop, gospel, and the ...
Blessed Quietness
Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 1997
Track listing:
Over My Head; Jesus Loves Me; We Three Kings; Walk With Me Jesus; Silent Night; Amazing Grace; The Old Rugged Cross; Holy, Holy, Holy; The First Noel; Blessed Quietness; What A Friend We Have In Jesus; Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (55:20)=20
Cyrus Chestnut: Blessed Quietness
by AAJ Staff
In the famous 1980 cult film classic The Blues Brothers, Curtis (Cab Calloway) suggests that Jake and Elwood Blues “slide on down to the Triple Rock, and check out the Rev. Cleophus." When Jake resists the suggestion, Curtis snaps “Jake, you get wise...you get to church!" Jake and Elwood heed wise Curtis's advice and are saved. ...
