{"id":6335,"date":"2015-01-12T20:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T04:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2015-01-13T20:18:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T04:18:25","slug":"monday-recommendation-jimmy-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/01\/monday-recommendation-jimmy-greene\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Jimmy Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jimmy Greene<\/strong>, Beautiful Life<\/em><\/a> (Mack Avenue)<\/p>\n

\"Greene,<\/a>The album opens with saxophonist Jimmy Greene\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 6-year-old daughter Ana angelically singing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Come Thou Almighty King\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at a 2011 family Christmas celebration. A year later Ana was one of the 26 pupils and teachers murdered in the assault on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. In his notes, Mr. Greene stresses that the album is in memory not of how she died, but of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153how she lived, lovingly, faithfully and joyfully.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Joining him in the tribute to Ana are pianists Renee Rosnes, Kenny Barron and Cyrus Chestnut; guitarist Pat Metheny; vocalists Kurt Elling, Latanya Farrell and Javier Colon; bassist Christian McBride; drummer Lewis Nash; strings of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra; voice actress Anika Noni Rose; and a children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s choir of Ana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s classmates from the period when the Greenes lived in Winnipeg, Canada. This memorial is indescribably moving and, yes, joyful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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