Drummer Matt Wilson discusses his two new CDs, WeBop: A Family Jazz Party and An Attitude for Gratitude.
WeBop: A Family Jazz Party is a new release that brings the best of its popular WeBop classes home to families everywhere. WeBop: A Family Jazz Party is music for little people, and the big people who love them, to enjoy together-singing, stomping, wiggling, giggling, and jamming with whatever you've got. Led by drummer and father of four, Matt Wilson, the recordings feature an all-star, inter-generational band that includes Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members Marcus Printup and Vincent Gardner, singer and guitarist Doug Wamble, and the legendary percussionist and NEA Jazz Master, Candido Camero.
An Attitude for Gratitude: "Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds," recites drummer and bandleader Matt Wilson in his composition "Bubbles." Inspired by the poem by Carl Sandburg, the song reflects the message of his tenth album as a leader for Palmetto Records. An Attitude for Gratitude is the fourth album by the award-winning ensemble Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts, an extraordinary collective of musical personalities featuring Wilson, Terell Stafford (trumpet), Gary Versace (piano, organ and accordion) and Martin Wind (bass).
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