Hard Times / Vincent Herring
) | Label: SMOKE SESSIONS RECORDS Catalog: 88829559334 Format: CD VINCENT HERRING, alto & soprano saxophones CYRUS CHESTNUT, piano & Fender Rhodes YASUSHI NAKAMURA, bass CARL ALLEN, drums With Special Guests: Nicolas Bearde, vocals Russell Malone, guitar Steve Turre, trombone Brad Mason, trumpet Sam Dillon, tenor saxophone01. Hard Work 02. Use Me 03. Summertime 04. Hard Times 05. Embraceable You 06. Eastern Joy Dance 07. The Sun Will Rise Again 08. Piccadilly Square 09. Good Morning Heartache 10. Amsterdam After Dark 11. Phineas Vincent Herring doesn’t have the answers to those issues any more than the rest of us. What he can offer is a tonic to help calm the turbulence of modern life, at least for an hour. With Hard Times, the master saxophonist supplies the perfect musical response to our troubled existence – part escape, part defiance; part lament, part laughter. Over the course of these 11 songs, Herring and his stellar band both sing the blues and shake them off in ways both healing and infectious.  Price: $22.98 |