Artist: Kenny Burrell & The Boys Choir of Harlem
Album: Love Is the Answer
Genre: Mainstream Jazz, Vocal Music, Choral
Label: Concord
Released: 1998
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Listen to the Dawn
- Be Yourself
- Love Suite: First Movement, Prelude
- Love Suite: First Movement, The Eternal Search
- Love Suite: First Movement, We Must Solve Our Problems
- Love Suite: First Movement, The Only Answer
- Love Suite: First Movement, Love Is the Answer, Part I
- Love Suite: First Movement, We Win
- Love Suite: First Movement, Love Is the Answer, Part II
- Love Suite: First Movement, We Win (reprise)
- Love Suite: First Movement, Love Is the Answer, Part I (reprise)
- Love Suite: Second Movement, What Happens If Nobody Wins
- Love Suite: Second Movement, How Do You Know
- Love Suite: Second Movement, It Will Work
- Love Suite: Second Movement, It Will Work (Development)
- Love Suite: Second Movement, Can We Believe It Will Work?
- Love Suite: Second Movement, We Must All Work Together
- Love Suite: Second Movement, Try Each Day
- Love Suite: Second Movement, Loving Is a Natural High
- We Must Find a Way
- I'm Gonna Do
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An unorthodox fusion of jazz and church music, Love Is the Answer is the last thing jazz fans expected from Kenny Burrell in the late 1990s. This ambitious project unites the guitarist and fellow jazzmen James Williams (piano, keyboards), Ray Drummond (acoustic bass) and Ben Riley (drums) with the Boys Choir Of Harlem, whose calming, reflective vocals draw on both African-American gospel and European church music. Burrell isn't known for writing lyrics, but in fact, he wrote all of the spiritual, inspirational lyrics that the Choir sings. This is far from a typical hard bop album, and yet, Burrell's guitar solos (both acoustic and electric) are definitely jazz solos. Not surprisingly, Love Is the Answer was too ambitious for some labels, which wondered how they would market such a release and opted to pass. But thankfully, Concord was willing to take a chance on this moving, thoughtful music.