[Slowhand] Marsalis & Clapton Play The Blues

[Jeff Elliott]

I just got my CD, much to my chagrin, thought I was buying the CD-DVD combo,
and listened to it on my flight down to the Big Easy.  I'm not yet ready to
declare like, dislike or anything much more than, hmmm, this is a bit
different!  I would like to view the DVD before I make a final assessment as
I think it's the only way I'll truly enjoy this romp.

Cheers,
Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: DeltaNick [mailto:deltanick at comcast.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 4:58 AM
To: Slowhand Digest
Subject: [Slowhand] Marsalis & Clapton Play The Blues

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