Javon Jackson & Nikki Giovanni - The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni (2022)
Javon Jackson & Nikki Giovanni - The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 339 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 132 Mb | 00:57:36
Jazz, Post-Bop, Spiritual Jazz | Label: Solid Jackson Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 339 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 132 Mb | 00:57:36
Jazz, Post-Bop, Spiritual Jazz | Label: Solid Jackson Records
A renowned poet has a new album out Friday titled “The Gospel According To Nikki Giovanni.” In addition to publishing dozens of poetry works, Nikki Giovanni has recorded several spoken word albums over the course of 50 years. But this time, she’s doing something a little different. The new album, a collaboration with saxophonist Javon Jackson, is a collection of gospel hymns and spirituals set to jazz. Growing up in the Baptist church, Giovanni says gospel music was instrumental to understanding herself as a poet. “The spirituals had a message,” she says. “They weren't just some people woke up one morning or came from working in the evening and said, ‘Oh, let's sit down and sing.’ They were sharing information with each other.”Tracklist:
In his capacity as a faculty member of The Hartt School and director of its Jackie McClean Institute of Jazz at the University of Hartford, saxophonist Javon Jackson invited activist, educator, and poet Nikki Giovanni to speak to students in February 2020. When she’d finished her talk, she heard Steal Away, the Hank Jones/Charlie Haden album of hymns and spirituals, one of this household’s favorites, playing in the auditorium. She wanted to hear more of it, which gave Jackson the idea to do an album of hymns and spirituals. He asked Giovanni to select 10 tunes, and she sent him the selections a few days later. The result is The Gospel according to Nikki Giovanni, whose healing powers testify to the songs’ enduring capacity to refresh the soul.
The 10 hymns and spirituals on Javon Jackson’s The Gospel according to Nikki Giovanni are deeply rooted in African American culture, having provided comfort and hope through a long history of oppression. Their presentation by saxophonist Javon Jackson demonstrates their deep, timeless ability to deliver support in troubled times.
Jackson allows the melodies to speak for themselves, delivering them with an elegant simplicity in a restrained, almost understated fashion, often just behind the beat. In his solos, he unpacks the arguments for hope wrapped within the tunes, lifting them into an abstract but soulful realm. His tenor tone—so deep and round and warm—carries a healing timbre that recalls that of John Coltrane, and it magnifies the power of this music. Then, there’s his command of the instrument, which allows an exceptionally nuanced expression. On “Night Song,” listen to him shape the meaning and impact of a long-held tone with a swinging vibrato and subtle timbre manipulations. (Giovanni makes a disarming guest vocal appearance on this tune, which was a favorite of her friend Nina Simone.)
Jackson is joined by an immensely capable and sympathetic crew—Jeremy Manasia (piano), David Williams (bass), and McClenty Hunter (drums). Manasia brings a wide range of influences to bear. You’ll hear a tribute to Monk as he enters his solo on “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel,” McCoy Tyner voicings on “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” and touches of a lyricism throughout that recalls Bill Evans. The Jackson/Manasia duet on “Lord I Want to Be a Christian” shines bright, capturing the sense of surrender to a higher cause. Hunter knows how to swing, and you hear it from the opening moments on the first track. Williams walks with the best of them—listen to him loping along on “Mary Had a Baby, Yes Lord” and vining around the line on “Wade in the Water” (political scientist Christina Greer delivers a reading from Giovanni’s bracing poem “A Very Simple Wish” on this track). Williams and Hunter bring just the right buoyancy to the sunny calypso rendition of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” which includes an unmistakable quote from Mr. Rollins’ “St. Thomas,” and they’re right there with him when Jackson brings an island breeze to play in the swinging and carefree version of “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.”
You’d be hard-pressed to name another saxophonist who could deliver this material with anything approaching the depth that Jackson, along with his crew, brings to it. Whatever your religious affiliation, or lack thereof, you can count on The Gospel according to Nikki Giovanni for its generous warmth. It will water that seed of hope that you might have thought lost.
01. Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel
02. Wade in the Water
03. Night Song
04. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
05. Mary Had a Baby, Yes Lord
06. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
07. I’ve Been Buked
08. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
09. Lord, I Want to Be a Christian
10. I Opened My Mouth to the Lord
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