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(269,212 posts) Thu Feb 11, 2016, 08:10 PM Feb 2016

Sandy Hook Father’s Jazz Album Nominated for Two Grammys

http://wtnh.com/2016/01/05/sandy-hook-fathers-jazz-album-nominated-for-two-grammys/
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When you hear jazz musician and Grammy Nominated Jimmy Greene play, it’s hard to imagine a time when he didn’t pick up an instrument.

“It’s not that I didn’t want to play music. It’s that I physically couldn’t,” said Greene.

It was right after he lost his daughter, 6-year-old daughter Ana Marquez-Greene, in the gunfire at Sandy Hook Elementary in December of 2012.

“In the grief process you lose physical strength. I was not able to drive a car physically. I just couldn’t do it. Mentally to have the amount of focus necessary to practice or compose I just didn’t have it,” said Greene.

He says with faith and support he found his strength again and his inspiration. His album, Beautiful Life, is tribute to his daughter, Ana.

“Everyday is difficult. Everyday has tears and listening to the album is just an expression of all those emotions,” said Greene.

The album starts with hymn and on the track you hear her young voice.

“We used a snippet of a home recording that my wife took of my kids performing a hymn, Come Though Almighty King,” said Greene.

He says he typically writes instrumental music only, but included vocals for Ana. She loved to dance and sing especially another song that’s featured “Maybe” from the musical, “Annie”.