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| Personnel Terri Lyne Carrington drums Tia Fuller alto flute Nir Felder guitar Antonio Hart flute Robin Eubanks trombone Gerald Clayton piano Fender Rhodes piano Arturo Stable percussion Recording information Sauce Entertainment Studios Boston MA Sound Temple Studio Asheville NC Systems Two Brooklyn NY Editor Jeremy Loucas Photographers Tracy Love Michael Goldman Drummer and bandleader Terri Lyne Carrington won a Grammy in 2012 for her genre-blurring Mosaic Project which blended the voices and instruments of an all-female cast in a series of bold musical statements Here Carrington turns her sights toward revisioning a legendary meeting of jazz minds on the recording of 1963 s Money Jungle by Duke Ellington Charles Mingus and Max Roach Accompanied by pianist Gerald Clayton bassist Christian McBride and a host of guests Carrington not only reinterprets that album she adds to its discourse with two of her own compositions and another by Clayton She doesn t follow the original sequence of Money Jungle She kicks it off with the title cut introduced by her drum kit underneath the voice of activist and author Michael Ruppert whose quote You have to create problems to create profit highlights other well-chosen organically placed sound clips from Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Hilary and Bill Clinton and Barack Obama making the tune - and the album - an artistic musical indictment of the pervasive corruption in Western capitalism But this set is far from some autodidactic sermonette As McBride and Clayton enter the tune s fray things get funky and swing With her trademark brand of authoritative circular rhythm deeply influenced by Roach at the core this trio comes together seamlessly to move the argument from the intellect into the heart Nonagenarian jazz elder Clark Terry lends his deep blue scatting vocal and trumpet to a steamy read of Fleurette Africaine The set s hinge piece is Wig Wise wit |
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