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Wynton Marsalis: Reeltime
by C. Michael Bailey
The Penultimate Experience. Wynton Marsalis has reached the next to the last release in his Swinging Into the 21st Century series. When originally released, the enduring buyer could save all of his/her boxtops and mail them to Sony and receive the eighth and final release with a handsome slipcase for the entire set. The ...
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: 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Midnight Blues: Standard Time Volume 5
Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: The Party's Over, You're Blase, After You've Gone, Glad to be Unhappy, It Never Entered My Mind, Baby, Won't You Please Come Home, I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry, I Got Lost In Your Arms, Ballad Of the Sad Young Men, This Spring Will Be A Little Late.
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