To Milton With Love Eddie Daniels

• 1 Travessia 04:43
• 2 Vera Cruz 04:49
• 3 Tres Pontas 05:27
• 4 Outubro 05:16
• 5 Courage 04:44
• 6 Rio Vermelho 03:31
• 7 Gira Girou 05:53
• 8 Morro Velho 05:41
• 9 Cantavento 03:59
• 10 Cancao Do Sal 03:50
• 11 For Milton 05:30
• Total Runtime 53:23

Info for To Milton With Love

Eddie Daniels' tribute to the legendary Brazilian musician / composer Milton Nascimento. To Milton is Daniels' third tribute album to a Brazilian music legend, following 2018's Grammy nominated album Heart of Brazil: A Tribute to Egberto Gismonti, and 2020's Night Kisses: A Tribute to Ivan Lins. Featuring longtime Daniels and Resonance collaborators, To Milton has guitarist Anthony Wilson, pianist Josh Nelson, bassist Kevin Axt and drummer Ray Brinker, plus the Lyris String Quartet and arrangements by Kuno Schmid and Josh Nelson. Together they have recreated Nascimento's second studio album, Courage, which was produced by Creed Taylor for CTI Records in 1969 and featured Herbie Hancock and Eumir Deodato. The 16-page booklet includes liner notes by award-winning author James Gavin. To Milton is produced by Resonance founder and co-president George Klabin, who was inspired to produce this project by a chance meeting with Nascimento in 1969 at a small jazz club in New York City. Klabin picked up a copy of Nascimento’s Courage album when it came out, and it remains his absolute favorite recording of music to this day, some 56 years later.

Eddie Daniels, clarinet, tenor and soprano saxophone
Anthony Wilson, guitar
Josh Nelson, piano
Kevin Axt, bass
Ray Brinker, drums
Kuno Schmid & Josh Nelson, arrangements
Lyris String Quartet:
Alyssa Park, violin
Shalini Vijayan, violin
Luke Maurer, viola
Timothy Loo, cello

Eddie Daniels
is that rarest of rare musicians who is not only equally at home in both jazz and classical music, but excels at both with breathtaking virtuosity.

Expert testimony from the jazz world comes from the eminent jazz critic Leonard Feather, who said of Eddie, "It is a rare event in jazz where one man can all but reinvent an instrument bringing it to a new stage of revolution."

From the classical side, Leonard Bernstein said "Eddie Daniels combines elegance and virtuosity in a way that makes me remember Arthur Rubenstein. He is a thoroughly well-bred demon."

Eddie first came to the attention of the jazz audience as a tenor saxophonist with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra. When Thad and Mel first organized their band in 1966 to play Monday nights at the Village Vanguard in New York (where it still plays), Eddie was one of the first musicians they called. Later that year, he sank $400 in a round-trip flight to Vienna to enter the International Competition for Modern Jazz, a contest organized by the pianist Fredrich Gulda and sponsored by the city of Vienna, and won first prize on saxophone. He continued working with Thad and Mel over the next several years and toured Europe extensively with them.

A single clarinet solo recorded with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis orchestra, "Live at the Village Vanguard" garnered sufficient attention for him to win Downbeat Magazine's International Critics New Star on Clarinet Award. This conversion to clarinet was not new, for Eddie began clarinet at age 13 and received his Masters in Clarinet from Juilliard. Winning numerous Grammy awards and nominations, Eddie Daniels revolutionized the blend of jazz and classical.

Eddie Daniels is clearly a renaissance musician, a virtuoso in both jazz and classical music, recipient of unreserved accolades from his peers, from critics, and from the public. Eddie's overriding ambition is to reach as many people as possible with his music, to enlarge the audience for both jazz and classical music and at the same time to tear down the walls separating them. In Eddie's hands, the music of Mozart can be as engaging as that of Charlie Parker and a concert featuring both can be a uniquely rewarding experience for the audience.

Booklet for To Milton With Love