[Slowhand] Marsalis & Clapton Play The Blues

[DeltaNick]

Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton "Play The Blues," in both CD and DVD formats, has been out for a week. I find it strange that nobody has mentioned it yet. I was not especially looking forward to it, as I don't care much for horns and prefer a 3-, 4- or 5-piece blues band. But this is, so far at least, a somewhat pleasant surprise. While Clapton's guitar playing is not on fire, I think he (and keyboards player Chris Stainton) does a decent job integrating into a Dixieland-style jazz band, and he does almost all of the lead singing, and quite well too. I'm normally a CD-rather-than-DVD guy, but with this one, the DVD reveals so much more (facial expressions, etc). Nice tones from the two Gibsons Clapton uses (mostly an ES-335).

                DeltaNick