Recent Oscar winner and late-night star Jon Batiste is premiering a new track, “Sweet Loraine,” that serves as the leadoff single from an upcoming benefit album, “Relief: A Benefi…
The benefit album is the result of a number of top labels coming together to support the JFA, including Concord Music Group, Mack Avenue Music Group, Nonesuch Records, Universal Music Group’s Verve Label Group, Blue Note Records and Warner Music Group.
Said JFA executive director Joe Petrucelli, “The Jazz Foundation of America deeply appreciates the artists, songwriters and label teams who contributed to this project with such compassion and generosity. As pandemic restrictions continue to lift, we recognize that musicians will face a particularly lengthy recovery. They were among the first to be hit by the effects of the crisis and will be among the last to achieve a true sense of normalcy or stability.
The set wraps up a live quintet performance from the JFA’s 2014 “A Great Night in Harlem” benefit at the Apollo Theater. Besides Herbie Hancock, bassist Buster Williams and drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath, it includes two musicians who have since died — trumpeter Wallace Roney, who passed away after contracting COVID, and tenor sax player Jimmy Heath, who died at 93 in January 2020, playing the latter musician’s “Gingerbread Boy.
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