YO | Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble | CD
YO | Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble | CD
Yo-Yo Ma is a French-born American cellist and orchestral composer of Chinese descent, born in Paris on 7 October 1955. He has won multiple Grammy Awards, received the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. As a child he appeared on American television in a concert conducted by Leonard Bernstein, and he later played chamber music with the pianist Emanuel Ax.
Sing Me Home is a one-disc CD album released by Masterworks in 2016, performed by Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble, a collective of performers and composers from around the world. Guest appearances include Toumani Diabaté, Gregory Porter, Lisa Fischer and Bill Frisell. Johnny Gandelsman and Kevin Killen are credited as producers.
Track List
- Green (Vincent's Tune) (Feat. Roomful of Teeth)
- O'Neill's Cavalry March (Feat. Martin Hayes)
- Little Birdie (Feat. Sarah Jarosz)
- Ichichila (Feat. Toumani Diabate & Balla Kouyate)
- Sadila Jana (Feat. Black Sea Hotel)
- Shingashi Song (Feat. Kaoru Watanabe)
- Madhoushi (Feat. Shujaat Khan)
- Wedding (Feat. Dima Orsho)
- Going Home (Feat. Abigail Washburn)
- Cabaliño (Feat. Roberto Comesaña, Anxo Pintos & Davide Salvado)
- St. James Infirmary Blues (Feat. Rhiannon Giddens, Michael Ward-Bergeman & Reylon Yount)
- If You Shall Return... (Feat. Bill Frisell)
- Heart and Soul (Feat. Lisa Fischer & Gregory Porter)