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Portraits in Blue

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Rhapsody in Blue; Yamekraw; I Got Rhythm Variations
Marcus Roberts: Portraits in Blue

by Marc Davis
This has to be the most raucous, the most bluesy, the most improvisational Rhapsody in Blue" ever recorded. And not all of the best improvisation is by Marcus Roberts. Wailing clarinets and wandering trumpets abound. And it is all in a spirit of the original, so much so that I believe jazz-loving George Gershwin would have ...