A Jazz Celebration of The Allman Brothers Band

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A Jazz Celebration of The Allman Brothers Band
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Studio album by
Big Band of Brothers
ReleasedNovember 22, 2019
RecordedJune 2018
StudioBates Brothers Recording, Hueytown, Alabama
Genre Jazz
Length62:52
Label New West
Producer John Harvey, Mark Lanter, Charles Driebe

A Jazz Celebration of The Allman Brothers Band is an album by the Big Band of Brothers. Ten songs made famous by The Allman Brothers Band receive big band arrangements. [1] The album was inspired by Bob Curnow's L.A. Big Band 1994 tribute album The Music of Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays. [2] Like the Allman Brothers, Big Band of Brothers is composed of musicians from the southeastern U.S. The album includes guest appearances by trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, guitarist Jack Pearson, and vocalists Marc Broussard and Ruthie Foster.

Contents

Tour package

In October 2020, American Songwriter premiered a live performance of the project from January 2019. [3]

Critical reception

DownBeat magazine editor Bobby Reed wrote, "The album provides a new prism through which to appreciate the music of an iconic band, many of whose founding members are no longer with us". [4] JazzTimes critic Jeff Tamarkin wrote, "That it's a larger ensemble bringing the Allmans' music into the jazz realm, rather than a smaller combo, is a curious but ultimately brilliant ploy." [5] Tom Clarke at Blues Music magazine called the album "a set of songs that mesmerize by their complexity, yet are fluid and easy to enjoy". [2] Jedd Beaudion of PopMatters wrote, "This recording is as entertaining and scintillating as Coltrane's "Live" at the Village Vanguard, the Brothers' own Eat a Peach or those legendary At Fillmore East sets." [6]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Statesboro Blues" Blind Willie McTell 5:14
2."Don't Want You No More" Spencer Davis, Edward Hardin3:48
3."It's Not My Cross to Bear" Gregg Allman 7:52
4."Hot 'Lanta" Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks, Berry Oakley, Jai Johanny Johanson 5:15
5."Whipping Post"Gregg Allman5:11
6."Stand Back"Gregg Allman5:35
7."Dreams"Gregg Allman6:39
8."In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"Betts7:11
9."Don't Keep Me Wonderin'"Gregg Allman4:08
10."Les Brers in A Minor"Betts12:03

Personnel

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References

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