Flowers : Beautiful life, volume 2

"In 2012, saxophonist Jimmy Greene lost his six-year-old daughter Ana Grace Marquez-Greene when she was murdered alongside 20 of her schoolmates during the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Poignantly, he paid tribute to Ana on his soulful 2014 album Beautiful Life. For 2017's buoyant follow-up, Flowers: Beautiful Life, Vol. 2, Greene continues to draw inspiration from his daughter's short life, this time exploring her love of dance ... Remarkably, on Flowers: Beautiful Life, Vol. 2, Greene remains a productive, positive-minded artist whose music, and memory, have only deepened in their harmonic, rhythmic, and spiritual grace".

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"Upon hearing Beautiful Life, Jimmy Greene's deeply moving 2014 album prompted by the tragic loss of his 6-year-old daughter, Ana Márquez-Greene, in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre, a friend of Ana's candidly remarked that the music was terribly slow and sad to honor a girl so fond of dancing. On Flowers - Beautiful Life Vol. 2, Greene takes that youthful criticism to heart, offering less a requiem and more an ode to joy, brimming with dance rhythms from North and South America ... This album's refusal to let darkness win in the face of grievous loss is an inspiration".