Wynton Marsalis/Eric Clapton: Play Blues – Live from Jazz at Lincoln Centre

(Reprise/Rhino)Wynton Marsalis says he wanted last April's Lincoln Centre blues collaborations with Eric Clapton "to sound like people playing music they know and love, not like a project". Marsalis knew all too well that such a meeting could sound like a opportunistic marketing ploy. In the event, he gave the English guitarist an ideal setting in which to experiment with jazz by touching the nerve that connects many British blues-rockers of Clapton's generation to the trad-jazz and bluesy skiff...

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