Terence Blanchard: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2015
- When he started to make the music that appears on his new album, trumpeter Terence Blanchard wasn't thinking of Eric Garner, Michael Brown or any of the other recent high-profile police killings of African-Americans. He was thinking of desired collaborators: Donald Ramsey, a bassist and high-school classmate; Oscar Seaton, a drummer with whom he'd worked on film projects; Fabian Almazan, the pianist of his other band; and Charles Altura, a guitarist he'd encountered online. And he was thinking about a sound different from the left-center jazz quintet he leads: something overtly funky, with electric bass and guitar and processing and human voices and dance grooves.
As the E-Collective came together - both as a band and in terms of its repertoire - it took on another guiding light. Blanchard, no stranger to political statements, saw the music as an opportunity to speak out on current events he was unable to ignore, especially as a black man. The eventual recording came to be a commentary on the treatment of minorities by American law enforcement, in the vein of the #blacklivesmatter movement. The album's title references Eric Garner's last words, "I can't breathe"; it's called Breathless.
The heavy and the party recently came together for a week-long run at a jazz club in D.C., though the mood was much more on the party side when the E-Collective stopped at NPR headquarters. The mood was relaxed and jovial from the time the group stepped into the lobby, with Englishman Chris Bailey supplying plenty of backbeats on our house drum set - though there was a moment toward the end of the set when Blanchard casually explained the project, setting up a lyrical, almost elegiac solo. This music was a modern update on jazz fusion, sure, but also one where we dance to ward off despair.
Set List
"Soldiers"
"Confident Selflessness"
"Breathless"
Credits
Producers: Patrick Jarenwattananon, Morgan Walker; Audio Engineer: Brian Jarboe; Videographers: Morgan Walker, Adam Wolffbrandt, Lani Milton; Assistant Producer: Elena Saavedra Buckley; photo by Lani Milton/NPR
I admire Blanchard's silence here. He's not interested in being the star of the show and wowing everybody with his amazing skill. He's interested in the music. He uplifts his band members, and in turn that makes the music better. Brilliant stuff, this is a great performance.
Charles Altura is so good !
Wow this pianist really brings so much I didn’t even realize
If anyone ever saw Mo' Better Blues, that was Terence playing the trumpet.
Funk HD !!!!!! Terence Wow !
The sound from that guitar! Woo!
ok charles made me paint my nails
The bass lines... Wow!
I fell in love with Terrence Blanchard when I Spike Lee interviewed him in his documentary, "When the Levees Broke", on Hurricane Katrina. I don't cry much, but that documentary will break you down and make you infuriated at our government's inability to quickly render aid to New Orleans. Seeing Terrence as a human being and not as a musician really made me like his music even more...
Bringin' it
De inmediato se conoce , siente, escucha, vive la gran calidad y dominio de estos grandes.
Saw these guys live last night and boy are they incredible! The guitarist was on fire!!
Kudos to Tiny Desk Concert engineering team - I was blown away with the high sound quality. It was clearly noticeable when you hear this sound right after other RUclips videos!
Just saw them in Jacksonville Florida tonight, 5.5.24! AWESOME!!!
I fell in love with T's sound, when I watched Spike's movie "She hate me". He speaks and feels with his music and translates in melodies what Spike writes in his scripts and what the actors feel. Awesome
Seen them live in Cleveland.. incredible band and great guys!
I love the way Terrance plays. I wanna learn it now
he has attitude terence as jazzmen.
TB> one of my Favorites. Met him in Dallas TX at Sambuccas -
Oscar Seaton, the drummer, he so amazing. I remember the movie "whiplash"