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Wynton Marsalis Standard Time Vol.6 |
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| Styles: |
Jazz - Mainstream - Trumpet - Labels - Sony |
| Media: |
Audio CD |
| Release Date: |
13 August 2001 |
| Label: |
Sony Jazz |
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| UPC Catalogue No: |
5099706987222 |
| Amazon Sales Ranking: |
33622 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Description |
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Wynton Marsalis's century-closing series of jazz and classical recordings isn't nearly the pulse-quickening excursion one might expect, what with all the fanfare and all the years the vaunted trumpeter has spent in the limelight. That said, his nod to Jelly Roll Morton is probably one of the better Marsalis recordings available. It's got enough rules built in--compositional economy, instrumental variation--that it disciplines the trumpeter's more ambitious tendencies. In the liner notes, Marsalis describes Morton dually as a jazz intellectual and a streetwise hustler, and anyone familiar with Morton will know the characterisation is apt. Marsalis's read of Morton, however, skips the street hustle and instead focuses on cleanly drawn portraits that amount to fine repertory pieces, works akin to chamber music in their ultimate impact. That's not so much of a putdown as it might seem, as African-American composers are so rarely treated the way European and Euro-American composers are. Morton knew this and wrote his way around it, much as Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus did. And Jelly Roll's stomping-good-time melodies are here to show his knowledge of both his audience and his compositional chops. But if you're expecting something innovative or hair-raising in the way of Marsalis rediscovering an untapped Jelly Roll vein, you'll be greeted instead with full-bore, horn-rich charts that swing strongly. And that ain't half bad. --Andrew Bartlett |
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Tracks |
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Red hot peppers |
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New Orleans bump |
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King Porter stomp |
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Pearls |
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Deep creek |
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Mamanita |
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Sidewalk blues |
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Jungle blues |
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Big lip blues |
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Dead man blues |
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Smokehouse blues |
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Billy Goat stomp |
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Courthouse bump |
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Black bottom stomp |
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Tom Cat blues |
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Customer Reviews |
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Mr Jelly Lord |
Rating: 5.0 |
Great fun this album. I often play it in the car as its so easy to listen to and picks me up on the way to work.Toe-tapping stuff from yesteryear with a nice amount of modern interpretation. Not one for the deadly serious jazz people, more one for us real folk who like a tune in our heads all day! |
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