Eric Reed: Black, Brown, And Blue

Eric Reed Luca Alemanno, Reggie Quinerly, Calvin B. Rhone, David Daughtry

Pianist/composer Eric Reed celebrates the music of black and brown composers on his very personal new album. When one thinks of the songwriters whose work has shaped the canon of jazz standards, names like George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin and Cole Porter come to mind. On his new album, "Black, Brown, and Blue," pianist/composer Eric Reed argues for a reworking of that canon to focus on Black and Brown composers, songwriters whose work originated in the jazz realm rather than on the Broadway stage. "Black, Brown, and Blue" presents music written by jazz heroes such as Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Wayne Shorter, Benny Golson, Horace Silver, Buddy Collette, and Buster Williams, along with jazz-savvy pop / R&B songwriters Stevie Wonder and Bill Withers. In addition, Reed and his bandmates on this exciting session - bassist Luca Alemanno and drummer Reggie Quinerly - each contribute a new piece of their own. "In the past, many of the contributions and works of black and brown people have either been destroyed, devalued or appropriated," Reed writes in his liner notes.

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