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Kenny Barron – Piano (6,8)
Cyrus Chestnut – Piano (9)
Javier Colon – Vocals (3)
Jonathan DuBose, Jr. – Guitar (10)
Kurt Elling – Vocals (4)
Latanya Farrell – Vocals (9)
Jimmy Greene – Tenor Saxophone (1~4,6,9,10), Soprano Saxophone (5,7,8,10), Flute (10)
Linden Christian School Early Years Choir, Brenda Johnson – Director (4,10)
Ana Márquez-Greene – Vocals (1)
Isaiah Márquez-Greene – Piano (1)
Christian McBride – Bass (2~5,7,9,10)
Pat Metheny – Acoustic Guitar (1)
Musicians of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra – Violins, Violas, Cellos (3,9)
Lewis Nash – Drums (2~5,7,9,10)
Anika Noni Rose – Spoken Word (10)
Renee Rosnes – Piano (2~5,7,10)
Jimmy Greene’s new release, Beautiful Life on Mack Avenue Records, is a celebration of the life of his 6-year-old daughter, Ana Márquez-Greene, whose life was tragically taken, along with 19 other children and 6 educators, on December 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
As on his acclaimed Mack Avenue debut, Beautiful Life, a poignant, reflective recording that honored his daughter’s love of singing with a program combining jazz, spirituals, contemporary Christian music and ballads, Greene again fulfills his stated imperative of “reflecting the way that Ana lived.” Here, Greene hones in on Ana’s love of dance with a kinetic, groove-filled program comprising ten original compositions—including two Greene-penned lyrics—and his arrangement of the “new standard,” “Something About You.”