Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues

Over the last several years, Eric Clapton has made a point of performing with, and collaborating on albums with, different notables from the world of music, particularly legendary blues musicians. 2011′s Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues: Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center is notable for a couple of differences between it and similar collaborations. First, while Wynton Marsalis may be a notable musician, he’s not a legend on the scale of B.B. King or J.J. Cale, both of whom had a significant impact on Clapton’s work even before he performed with them; Marsalis is actually a fair bit younger than Clapton. Further, Marsalis is apparently more of a jazz musician than a blues musician (I’ll admit to being unfamiliar with his work prior to this, as I’m not a big jazz fan.) And, unlike Riding with the King or The Road to Escondido, this is a live album, not a studio album.