Chuck Leavell - Chuck Gets Big (with The Frankfurt Radio Big Band) (2018) [Official Digital Download]

Chuck Leavell has been pleasing the ears of music fans for more than 40 years now. His piano and keyboard work has been heard on the works of Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, John Mayer, The Black Crowes, George Harrison, The Allman Brothers Band, The Indigo Girls, Blues Traveler, Train, Montgomery-Gentry, Lee Ann Womack and many, many more. He has been the musical director and keyboardist for the Rolling Stones for over two decades.

In addition to being a well established pianist/artist in the music industry, Leavell is also a published author, long time tree farmer, co-founder of the popular website The Mother Nature Network, and keeps busy with his advocacy work on behalf of the environment. He has just completed two episodes of America’s Forests With Chuck Leavell for PBS. At the age of 13, Chuck got the opportunity to see Ray Charles in concert. He recalls, “Ray and the band played an incredible show, and it had such an impact on me that I made up my mind there and then that that was what I wanted to do. I decided that night what I wanted as my career.”

Leavell’s most recent solo endeavor, Chuck Gets Big, will make its world debut at the 2018 Savannah Jazz Festival. As he describes this new album and body of work,

“In 2011, I had the pleasure of doing a concert with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band, a 17-piece brass orchestra of some of the finest musicians in Germany. Three talented arrangers created charts for some twelve songs I had chosen from my works with the Allman Brothers Band; Sea Level and the Rolling Stones, as well as my own compositions. “Chuck Gets Big” is the result of this experience, and is my latest release on BMG records. Now, we are proud to bring this to Savannah for the Savanah Jazz Festival with the amazing Savannah Jazz Orchestra to present it live on September 29, 2018. This will be a unique presentation that will only happen once in a lifetime. Don’t miss it…”

Tracklist:
1. Route 66 (with The Frankfurt Radio Big Band) 04:47
2. King Grand (with The Frankfurt Radio Big Band) 06:14
3. Losing Hand (with The Frankfurt Radio Big Band) 04:48
4. Honky Tonk Woman (with The Frankfurt Radio Big Band) 04:26
5. Living In A Dream (with The Frankfurt Radio Big Band) 06:38
6. Blue Rose (with The Frankfurt Radio Big Band) 08:18
7. Southbound (with The Frankfurt Radio Big Band) 05:06
8. Tumbling Dice (with The Frankfurt Radio Big Band) 03:45
9. Ashley (with The Frankfurt Radio Big Band) 05:48
10. Statesboro Blues (with The Frankfurt Radio Big Band) 05:39
11. Georgia On My Mind (with The Frankfurt Radio Big Band) 05:11
12. Compared to What (with The Frankfurt Radio Big Band) 08:22
13. Tomato Jam (with The Frankfurt Radio Big Band) 03:54