Choices (Terence Blanchard album)
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| Studio album by Terence Blanchard | ||||
| Released | August 18, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | March 5–8, 2009 | |||
| Studio | The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA. | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 01:13:45 | |||
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Concord Jazz 088072317369 Universal Music Group International 088072317369 |
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| Producer | Terence Blanchard, Robin Burgess, Frank Wolf | |||
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Choices is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard. The album was released on August 18, 2009 via Concord Jazz and Universal Music Group International labels.
The idea for Choices was generated by conversations between Blanchard and Herbie Hancock during their joint tour in Fall 2008. The album is a loose sequel to Blanchard's previous Grammy-winning 2007 record, A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina).Choices centers on broader questions about free will and personal responsibility. On several compositions the album features the voice of Cornel West, a notable socialist philosopher, civil rights activist, critic, and teacher of both religion and African American studies at Princeton University. Blanchard substantially bases the album's title and its conceptual backstory on the West’s discourse on the nature of choice and the kind of people we may choose to be.
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