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Willie Nelson - Two Men With The Blues
| Allmusic | | History has proven that Willie Nelson will duet with pretty much anybody who comes along, and while this open-hearted open mind sometimes backfires, more often than not it results in some of his most sublime recordings. Two Men with the Blues, his album with jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis recorded over a two-night stand at Jazz at Lincoln Center on January 12 and 13, 2007, belongs in the latter category, standing as truly one of the most special records in either Nelson's or Marsalis' catalog. If the pair initially seem like an odd match, it's only because Wynton long carried the reputation of a purist, somebody who was adamant against expanding the definition of jazz, which cast him as the opposite of Willie, who never found a border he couldn't blur....full text |
| | Boston | Lonesome harmonica and classy drums. Honky-tonk piano and abstract hornplay. A laid-back drawl and a cosmopolitan trumpet solo. This is the scintillating mash-up that kicks off "Bright Lights Big City," the opening song on Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis's unlikely new collaboration, "Two Men With the Blues."
Ten exuberant, tender, casually elegant tracks later you realize - much to your surprise, if you're like me - that the pairing of the grizzled country star and the suave jazz master is an unmitigated, ear-tickling success....full text |
| | Popmatters | Fans of Willie Nelson will not be surprised to hear that Willie has cut a blues album, or that he is singing some jazz standards. Willie has always been an omnivore, a genuine American original who draws from the full breadth of the continent’s musical menu.
But folks may be more surprised to hear that Wynton Marsalis—the great jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator who has made a sideline of seeming narrow-minded about what “jazz” properly includes—is dining across the musical spectrum. But here we have it, a concert organized by Marsalis’s “Jazz at Lincoln Center” featuring the trumpeter’s quintet and Willie Nelson (plus Nelson’s trusty mouth-harpsman Mickey Raphael). Originally titled “Willie Nelson Sings the Blues”, the concert pits Marsalis’s extraordinary jazz group against Nelson’s gorgeously laconic sense of time. The result is close to sublime....full text |
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