...Chestnut graduated from Boston's Berklee College of Music in 1985 and spent six years working with Jon Hendricks, Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison and Wynton Marsalis. He moved on to a two-year stint with legendary jazz vocalist Betty Carter...

...With his crack three-man band augmented by horns and strings and such guests as Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson and Terence Blanchard, the good Doctor wisely couches his anger and contempt, as well as his empathy and sorrow, in the kind of irresistibly...