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September 6, 2011

Highlights of Eric Clapton and Wynton Marsalis’ performances together earlier this year will be released on CD and DVD this month.

Last April, Clapton and Marsalis teamed up for two sold-out shows with the members of the Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra at New York’s Rose Hall, playing a repertoire of songs selected by Clapton and arranged by Marsalis. Marsalis, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, said “We wanted these concerts to sound like people playing music they know and love, not like a project.”

The pair were accompanied by by Dan Nimmer (piano), Carlos Henriquez (bass), Ali Jackson (drums), Marcus Printup (trumpet), Victor Goines (clarinet), Chris Crenshaw (trombone, vocals), Don Vappie (banjo) and Clapton’s longtime keyboardist/sideman Chris Stainton.

Marsalis says the group combined the sound of an early blues jump-band with the sound of New Orleans jazz.

The album and DVD are titled Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues – Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center. Both will be released on Tuesday, September 13.

CD and DVD Tracklisting:

1. “Ice Cream”
2. “Forty-Four”
3. “Joe Turner’s Blues”
4. “The Last Time”
5. “Careless Love”
6. “Kidman Blues”
7. “Layla”
8. “Joliet Bound”
9. “Just A Closer Walk With Thee” – feat. Taj Mahal
10. “Corrine, Corrina” – feat. Taj Majal

Bonus track on DVD only: “Stagger Lee” by Taj Majal

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I wonder if PBS will be selling this triple the price for pledge week.

Don't give them any ideas: they might request a "mere $80" extra for the DVD cover coffee mug.

[Edited 9/6/11 9:58am]