Marcus Miller Renaissance
- Funk |
- Jazz |
- Jazz Fusion |
- Traditional Jazz
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Label: Concord
Renaissance finds Marcus Miller offering up an especially emotive 13-song collection that includes eight richly inspired original compositions that swing from a tip of the porkpie to the CTI Records sound of the `70s to an introspective and ultimately hope-filled rumination about the island off the coast of Dakar in Africa known as Gorée. The album also includes five cover songs that canvas works by War, Janelle Monae, Weldon Irvine, Ivan Lins and Luther Mano Hanes. Though the CD primarily features Miller's smokin' new band, it also features special guest vocalists Dr. John, Rubén Blades and Gretchen Parlato.