Earth Stories
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| Earth Stories | ||||
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| Released | 1996 | |||
| Recorded | November 28–30, 1995 | |||
| Studio | Mastersound, NYC | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Producer | Yves Beauvais, Cyrus Chestnut | |||
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Earth Stories is an album by the American musician Cyrus Chestnut, released in 1996.[1][2] It is dedicated to his grandmother.[3] Chestnut supported the album with a North American tour.[4] Earth Stories was a success on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart.[5]
The album was produced by Yves Beauvais and Chestnut.[6] Chestnut had originally envisioned a sextet recording before deciding that he wanted to be the prime mover of the music.[7][8] He was backed by Alvester Garnett on drums and Steve Kirby on bass.[9] He wrote nine of the album's 11 songs.[10] Chestnut felt that the songs, in their different styles, were reflective of his personal history and his interest in the blues.[11][12] He labeled "Cooldaddy's Perspective" "acoustic funk"; the horn section on the song included the saxophonists Steve Carrington and Antonio Hart and the trumpeter Eddie Allen.[13][6] "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" includes a phrase from Barry Harris's "Nascimento".[14] "Nutman's Invention #1" is played in a ragtime style.[15] "In the Garden" is a version of the traditional spiritual.[16]
