Artist: Billy Harper

Title: Roots of the Blues

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2013

Label: Sunnyside

UPC: 016728309721

Genre: Jazz

Album Tracks

1. Carnival
2. Blues to Senegal
3. Berkshire Blues
4. Body and Soul
5. Congolese Children Song
6. If One Could Only See
7. Blues to Africa
8. How High the Moon
9. Cleanhead Blues
10. Timbuktu
11. Roots of the Nile
12. Take the a Train
13. The Healers
14. African Lady

Originally having met in 1972 at a Tangiers music festival, pianist Randy Weston and saxophonist Billy Harper have collaborated on and off for over four decades, the most notable being their recording made at Montreux Jazz Festival in 1974, Carnival. The pair's 2013 recording, the Roots of the Blues, brings these two giants of Jazz together to create moving renditions of 10 compositions from Weston's incredible anthology along with three standards and a Harper original. The underlying elements intertwining Weston and Harper are a deep understanding of and heartfelt connections to the blues.