[Dixielandjazz] Come Sunday - Gospel Songs

[Stephen G Barbone]

An unlikely Pairing? Maybe not. (Charlie Haden was the bassist for  
Ornette Coleman) For a sample tune go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdylMDmDu4U&feature=youtu.be

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGPNdsVvWhM&feature=related

Jazz Valedictorians

By NATE CHINEN - NY TIMES - JANUARY 8, 2012


Charlie Haden and Hank Jones



A serene valedictory air hangs over “Come Sunday” (Emarcy), a  
collaboration between Charlie Haden, one of jazz’s great bassists, and  
Hank Jones, one of its finest pianists. Recorded in February 2010 —  
just three months before Jones died, at 91 — the album opens  
meaningfully with the gospel standard “Take My Hand, Precious Lord.”  
It’s a hymn of earthly transcendence and spiritual succor, like much  
of what follows, including “Blessed Assurance,” “Going Home” and  
“Nearer My God to Thee.” Jones was the son of a Baptist deacon, and  
Mr. Haden grew up singing songs like these; both are on terra firma  
here, resuming an earnest conversation that began with “Steal Away:  
Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs” (Verve), which they recorded in  
1994. “Come Sunday” is a more delicate album than that one, which  
often used its material as a springboard for soulful elaboration. This  
time the melodies stand supreme, whether they’re fleshed out by Mr.  
Jones, with respectful filigree, or by Mr. Haden, with a lumbering  
grace. The album is due out on Tuesday, the same day that Mr. Haden,  
74, will be inducted as an NEA Jazz Master by the National Endowment  
for the Arts. Jones, who received that honor in 1989, spent the next  
20 years living up to its standard; this album, touched by humility,  
honors his memory well.