Length 49:02 Release date 25 November 2014 | ||
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Released November 25, 2014 (2014-11-25) Genres Gospel music, Post-bop, Neo-bop jazz Similar Living It, Destined To Win, Whatever the Road, Love Language, Saints and Sinners |
beautiful life performance by jimmy greene and javier colon the meredith vieira show
Beautiful Life is the eighth studio album from Jimmy Greene. Mack Avenue Records released the album on November 25, 2014. Greene dedicated the album to his daughter, Ana Grace Márquez-Greene, who was murdered in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting,
Contents
- beautiful life performance by jimmy greene and javier colon the meredith vieira show
- Critical reception
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
Critical reception
Reviewing the album from The New York Times, Nate Chinen describes, "there's...a quiet resilience in those songs". Marcus Chilton, writing a review at The Daily Telegraph, replies, "Beautiful Life is a remarkable tribute". Awarding the album four and a half stars at AllMusic, Matt Collar states, "Greene transforms his personal anguish into something that's as inspirational to the soul as it is beautiful to the ears." Larkin Corman, rating the album four stars from The Irish Times, writes, "Even without the context, this would be a beautiful recording; knowing the background, one cannot but be humbled by its generosity." Giving the album five stars for All About Jazz, Patricia Myers says, "Greene's album combines jazz with spirituals, contemporary Christian music and ballads, plus three original songs." Jack Goodstein, penning a review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer, responds, "Beautiful Life is an emotionally charged musical celebration of a life too soon lost." Writing a review from the Ottawa Citizen, Peter Hum recognizes, "Totalling about 50 minutes in all, Beautiful Life is a concise album in which every note speaks volumes."
Personnel
Songs
1Saludos / Come Thou Almighty King (feat Pat Metheny)Pat Metheny5:12
2Last Summer6:38
3When I Come Home (feat Javier Colon)Javier Colon3:22