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Wynton Marsalis: Sweet Release and Ghost Story
by C. Michael Bailey
Volume 5. Wynton Marsalis continues Swinging into the Twenty-first Century with this fifth installment of his projected eight volume series. So far we have had an interesting mix of classical and jazz, the orchestral and Kammermusik, the new and the old. Sweet Release and Ghost Story are two new ballets composed by Marsalis, joining his previously ...
Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra: Big Train
by C. Michael Bailey
All Aboard. In keeping with the Duke Ellington precedence, Wynton Marsalis has been composing longer and longer jazz pieces, music that approximates suites. Starting with The Majesty of the Blues (Columbia, 1989) and proceeding through Blue Interlude (Columbia, 1992), Citi Movement (Columbia, 1993), In This House, On This Morning (Columbia, 1994), Jump Start and Jazz (Columbia, ...
Wynton Marsalis: A Fiddler's Tale / At the Octoroon Balls
by C. Michael Bailey
Yes, indeed!. Wynton Marsalis's series Swinging Into the 21st Century series is shaping up to be a most significant body of music. Initiated with his volume 4 collection of standards, Marsalis Plays Monk (Columbia, 1998), Marsalis continues his ambitious series with an American adaptation of Igor Stravinsky's L'Historie du soldat (A Soldier's Tale). The text was ...
Al Hirt & Pete Fountain: Super Jazz
by AAJ Staff
This CD is Dixieland Jazz at it's finest ! But then if you know anything about New Orleans type jazz, you know that the names Al Hirt & Pete Fountain are synonymous to all for Traditional New Orleans/ Dixieland music and also with the trumpet and clarinet respectively. Amen and Amen. I just checked at one ...
Wynton Marsalis: Marsalis Plays Monk: Standard Time Volume 4
by C. Michael Bailey
Academic Freedom. Marsalis Plays Monk: Standard Time Volume 4 is the fourth in Wynton Marsalis's Standard Time series and the first in a series of eight total CDs comprising the Swinging into the 21st Century series. Regardless of anything said about Wynton Marsalis, he is a dedicated educator and purveyor of jazz music. Many critics have ...
Wynton Marsalis: Marsalis Plays Monk: Standard Time Volume 4
by Jim Santella
Recorded in 1983 and 1994, Wynton Marsalis’ homage to composer and pianist Thelonious Monk has the orchestral sound that encompasses many of the trumpeter’s recordings. His cohesive ensemble arrangements feature each member with brief individual solo statements that fit together seamlessly. Analogous to the tactics of a basketball team, Marsalis’ septet “passes the ball" from trombonist ...
Michal Urbaniak: Fusion
by C. Michael Bailey
Fusion. Polish violinist Michal Urbaniak’s recording Fusion was aptly named. Riding a wave of jazz-rock music, Urbaniak produced this enigmatic recording at once lyrical and noisy. Fusion is made up of seven originals, six of Urbaniak’s and one of keyboard player Wojciech Karolak. This music is percussion intensive and keyboard heavy. All compositions are very Rock ...
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
by Philip B. Pape
Very few albums can match this Miles Davis's 1959 classic, often considered the greatest album in the history of jazz. Backed by an exquisite combo, this is an essential recording even for those who don't listen to jazz. With Davis himself on trumpet, Julian “Cannonball" Adderley on alto saxophone, John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wynton Kelly ...
Branford Marsalis: Requiem
by Ian Nicolson
For ten years or so, since Crazy People Music back in 1990, Branford Marsalis has steered well clear of the definitive in Jazz. He's played sax with Sting, Tina Turner, and Gangstarr, led Jay Leno's Tonight Show band, toured with Dizzy, made movies with Danny De Vito, recorded Blues-based albums starring B B King and Lightnin' ...
Branford Marsalis: Requiem
by Bob Margolis
Telepathy. Elasticity. Forward looking. Branford Marsalis's new release, “Requiem" makes us glad Steepy brought back the quartet form to his music and makes us even more profoundly sad about the tragic passing of pianist Kenny Kirkland. Although the original plan was to get used to the material, hone it on the road and come back to ...
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