Choices (Terence Blanchard album)

Choices
Studio album by Terence Blanchard
Released August 18, 2009
Recorded March 5–8, 2009
Studio The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA.
Genre Jazz
Length 1:13:45
Label Concord Jazz 088072317369
Universal Music Group International 088072317369
Producer Terence Blanchard, Robin Burgess, Frank Wolf
Terence Blanchard chronology
A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)
(2007)A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)2007		 Choices
(2009)		 Magnetic
(2013)Magnetic2013
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
All About Jazz[2]
The Guardian[3]

Choices is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard.[4][5] The album was released on August 18, 2009 via Concord Jazz and Universal Music Group International labels.

Background

The idea for Choices was generated by conversations between Blanchard and Herbie Hancock during their joint tour in Fall 2008. The album is a loose sequel to Blanchard's previous Grammy-winning 2007 record, A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina).[6] Choices centers on broader questions about free will and personal responsibility.[7] On several compositions the album features the voice of Cornel West, a notable socialist philosopher, civil rights activist, critic, and teacher of both religion and African American studies at Princeton University. Blanchard substantially bases the album's title and its conceptual backstory on the West’s discourse on the nature of choice and the kind of people we may choose to be.[8]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Byus"Walter Smith III6:47
2."Beethoven"Terence Blanchard0:54
3."D's Choice"Blanchard3:47
4."Journey"Kendrick Scott6:02
5."Hacia del Aire"Fabian Almazan7:11
6."Jazz Man in the World of Ideas" 0:40
7."Him or Me"Smith III4:21
8."Choices"Blanchard6:10
9."Hugs" (Historically Underrepresented Groups)Almazan6:31
10."Winding Roads"Derrick Hodge12:19
11."When Will You Call"Bilal Oliver4:27
12."A New Note Angel" 0:55
13."A New World" (Created Inside the Walls of Imagination)Hodge5:17
14."Touched by an Angel"Scott6:05
15."Robin's Choice"Blanchard2:19
Total length:1:13:45

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Jurek, Thom. "Choices". Allmusic. allmusic.com. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  2. ↑ Turner, Mark F. (September 8, 2009). "Terence Blanchard: Choices". All About Jazz. allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  3. ↑ Fordham, John (6 November 2009). "Terence Blanchard: Choices". The Guardian. theguardian.com. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  4. ↑ Tamarkin, Jeff (October 2009). "Terence Blanchard Group: Choice". Jazz Times. jazztimes.com. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "The Terence Blanchard Group – Choices". Discogs. discogs.com. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  6. ↑ Spera, Keith (July 31, 2009). "Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard's new CD explores the concept of 'Choices'". The Times-Picayune. nola.com. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  7. ↑ Was, David (August 24, 2009). "Terence Blanchard: Free Will And 'Choices'". NRP. npr.org. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  8. ↑ Smith, Sid (2009). "HOMECLIPS The Terence Blanchard Group: Choices: Review". BBC. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
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