Harlem-Kingston Express (Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, NYC)

Product Description 54th Annual Grammy Awards Finalist as Best Reggae Album. The rarefied and infectiously joyous mood that pervaded Dizzy s Club during Monty Alexander s sold-out run at Jazz at Lincoln Center in July 2010 is brilliantly captured in on this reggae-jazz fusion disc. Harlem Kingston Express finds the Jamaican jazz legend in rare form rockin it simultaneously with his jazz quartet and a powerhouse reggae posse in New York City with additional tracks from dates in Jamaica and Europe. A live and powerful follow up to Stir It Up, Alexanders lauded Bob Marley Tribute. Review Monty Alexander presented his refined concept of groove with the recent Harlem-Kingston Express project, blending a jazz trio and a steaming reggae unit, weaving back and forth between the idioms with orchestral finesse. --DownBeat Alexander himself is in excellent form, carefully walking the tightrope that bridges jazz improvisation and the rhythmic riffs of reggae. --All About Jazz