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Folk Art (album)

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Released
  
2009

Folk Art (2009)
  
Bird Songs (2011)

Release date
  
5 May 2009

Label
  
Blue Note Records

Recorded
  
November 18–19, 2008

Artist
  
Joe Lovano Us Five

Producer
  
Joe Lovano

Genres
  
Jazz, Post-bop

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Nominations
  
Porin Award for Best Foreign Jazz Music Album

Joe lovano us five folk art 2009


Folk Art is the twenty-first studio album by American saxophonist Joe Lovano, released on Blue Note Records in 2009. The album was well-received by critics, scoring 84% on six reviews in Metacritic which means "universal acclaim".

Contents

Overview

For the recording of Folk Art Lovano formed a new band he called Us Five, featuring rising star Esperanza Spalding on bass and pianist James Weidman, who accompanied vocalists Abbey Lincoln and Cassandra Wilson, and (like Wilson) was associated with the M-Base collective. With Francisco Mela and Otis Brown III two drummers completed the unusual quintet. It was the first album with compositions exclusively written by Lovano. With the liberated spirit of the 1960s avant-garde and the subsequent loft scene in mind, the interpretations ought to be "loose and joyous".

Track listing

All tracks written by Joe Lovano.

Personnel

  • Joe Lovano: Alto and tenor saxophone, alto clarinet, taragat, gong
  • James Weidman: Piano
  • Esperanza Spalding: Bass
  • Otis Brown III: Drums, bells
  • Francisco Mela: Drums, bells, dumbek, pandeiro
  • Songs

    1Powerhouse4:05
    2Folk Art10:07
    3Wild Beauty7:18

    References

    Folk Art (album) Wikipedia