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| Jesse Cook brings “One World” Concert Tour to New York City  The cerebral Paris-born, Toronto-raised musician has spent a lifetime traveling the globe and absorbing rhythms from diverse cultures. Always in pursuit of inspiration and innovation, Cook delivers the most sonically diverse and distinctive disc of his vast career on One World, his most recent studio album that debuted at No. 1 in the Canadian's homeland on both the world music and jazz charts.The Nuevo flamenco guitarist was inspired by thoughts of a modern day Constantinople and the intersection of world cultures. "I wanted to make what I was doing feel like Constantinople, the ancient city that existed between the East and the West, " said Cook. "It was the meeting point of all these great cultures — Africa, Europe, Asia, India. I want my music to be that place: The Constantinople of sound. A place where ancient sounds meet with modern ones and pass though that port." The U.S. leg of the "One World" tour coincides with the twentieth anniversary of Cook's solo debut, "Tempest." The Juno Award winner and 11-time nominee's latest PBS special, "Jesse Cook: Live at the Bathurst Theatre" has received repeat airings. Cook received national airplay for the quixotic summer radio single, "Shake, " an infectious guitar hand-clapper, and the newly released "Taxi Brazil, " a seductive expedition of melody and rhythm demonstrative of the ethos consistently present on Cook's intercontinental recordings. Recently he released a video for the album's "Once, " a poignant meditation lensed in the bucolic French countryside where the artist used to summer with his family while coming of age. Don't miss Jesse Cook live in concert on October 29, 2015. World music adventurer Jesse Cook brings "One World" concert tour to New York City Guitar virtuoso Jesse Cook returns to The Concert Hall stage with his award-winning fusion of flamenco, rumba, gypsy, jazz and classical as part of an 18-city U.S. tour. Thursday, October 29 at 7:30pm The Concert Hall at New York Society for Ethical Culture 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West write your comments about the article :: © 2015 Jazz News :: home page |