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Wycliffe Gordon: The Search / Uptown Lowdown
by C. Michael Bailey
Wycliffe Gordon accepts the trombone mantle from Al Grey and turns in his best performances to date. Just when I was prepared to anoint Uri Caine's Goldberg Variations the best disc to cross my path this year, Nagel-Heyer sends me their much-anticipated release by Wynton Marsalis-Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and additional discs containing performances by that same ...
The Gospel Truth
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2000
Track listing: Jesus Loves Me; The Deacon's Moan; What a Friend We Have in Jesus; The Lord's Prayer; There's a Tree; The Gospel Truth; Take My Hand Precious Lord; The Hallelujah Scat; We Have Come Into This House; The Battle Hymn of the Republic; The Message. (Total Time: 57:25)
Wycliffe Gordon: The Gospel Truth
by C. Michael Bailey
Deep River. At this posting, I am still awaiting Wycliffe Gordon's new release on Nagel-Heyer. In the mean time The Gospel Truth revealed itself to me. Imagine my surprise when I found this brand-spankin' new Criss Cross release by none other than the 'bone master his self. Decidedly in a gospel vein, I was at first ...
Wycliffe Gordon: Slidin' Home
by Dave Nathan
Another of Wynton Marsalis' discoveries, Wycliffe Gordon has established himself as a leading practitioner of the slide instrument on today's jazz scene helping to move along the renewed interest in an instrument which had fallen a few notches from the heights it once enjoyed. All of the technical wizardry and jazz tradition laid down by the ...
Wycliffe Gordon: Slidin
by C. Michael Bailey
The Best of the Best. Wynton Marsalis, like Miles Davis and Art Blakey, has been responsible for presenting the jazz world with a legion of fully-formed and competent talent. Those who have been through Wynton’s School of the road include Marcus Roberts, the late Kenny Kirkland, Wessell “Warmdaddy” Anderson, Reginald Veal just to name a few. ...
Wynton Marsalis: Mr. Jelly Lord: Standard Time Volume 6
by C. Michael Bailey
Volume Six Squared. Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis' Mr. Jelly Lord is cleverly Volume Six in two different collections. It is Volume 6 in Marsalis' continuing survey of the American Canon of standard tunes and it is also Volume 6 in his ambitious Swinging into the Twenty-first Century series, slated for a total of eight volumes. That is ...
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 ...
