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Delirium Blues Project: Serve or Suffer

Read "Serve or Suffer" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


This all-star jazz-meets-R&B project, recorded live at the Blue Note in August '07 is orchestrated by vocalist Roseanna Vitro and pianist Kenny Werner who contributes several head-spinning arrangements of familiar blues, rhythm and blues, and not-quite-blues. The album certainly gets an “A" for effort. “I found the writing process fascinating. Some of the tunes were very familiar in their original recorded versions, but I still wanted to give them a new spin," enthuses Werner. “That required me to honor the ...

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Delirium Blues Project, Co-led by Kenny Werner & Roseanna Vitro, Debuts on CD 3/25

Delirium Blues Project, Co-led by Kenny Werner & Roseanna Vitro, Debuts on CD 3/25

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity

In August 2007, longtime friends and musical partners in jazz Kenny Werner and Roseanna Vitro took to the stage of the Blue Note in New York with a bodacious new category-bending band, the Delirium Blues Project. Werner occupied his customary piano chair but also filled the new role of arranging for the nine-piece group. Vocalist Vitro tapped into her Arkansas and Texas roots to deliver the goods on Delirium's funk and blues material, which ranged from Tower of Power and ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Serve or Suffer

Half Note Records
2008

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