2009 GRAMMY® Award Nomination - Best Pop
Instrumental Album
Gerald
Albright: among the most respected, multi-dimensional and sought
after saxophonists to straddle the fence of jazz and R&B. Stax
Records: the legendary Memphis-based recording company that defined
southern soul from the late `50s to the mid `70s.
Turn the former loose on the latter and what do you get: Sax for Stax,
a soul stirring stew of down home rhythm and blues chased with a mason
jar of jazz.
Consisting of eight passionately rendered covers of Stax classics
(three with vocal guests Will Downing, Ledisi and Philip Bailey), plus
three originals written with Memphis in mind, Sax for Stax (in stores
June 24) marks the sax master's eleventh solo project and second for
Peak Records, which along with Stax, is a division of the Concord Music
Group.
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