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The Marciac Suite |
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| Styles: |
Jazz - Labels - Sony - Mainstream - Trumpet |
| Media: |
Audio CD |
| Release Date: |
11 September 2000 |
| Label: |
Sony Jazz |
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| Amazon Sales Ranking: |
19352 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Description |
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Wynton Marsalis gets personal in this tribute to the picturesque French town of Marciac, venue of the annual Marciac Jazz Festival. This is a story about that town, told in 13 parts through the instruments of its adopted son and his musician friends. In typical Marsalis style, the compositions on this album range from the playful to the complex, with one important proviso--they all swing. The bouncy "Loose Duck", "Marciac Fun" and "D'Artagnan" benefit from layers of well conceived arrangements and joyful execution. Marsalis has always shown tremendous loyalty and respect to his seasoned sidemen, with more than predictable results. The album is peppered with further evidence of this symbiosis, replete with the unique and very personal non-textbook sounds now associated with the Wynton Marsalis Septet--hear Gordon, Goines, and Marsalis on the meandering "Marciac Moon", Roberts' impossible ragging on "For My Kids at the College of Mariac", and Whitaker's full bass figures on the toe-tapping "B is for Boussaget (and Bass)". The band's performance is a showcase for growling, haunting, wailing, piercing brass and woodwind, not to mention a driving rhythm section with possibly the fattest wooden bass ever heard in jazz. The album ends with one of those now-famous Marsalis syncopated clapping sessions. And as expected of the high priest of jazz, the entire story swings so good that you find yourself searching for track 14. --Sota |
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Tracks |
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Loose duck |
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The big top |
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Jean-louis is everywhere |
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Mademoiselle D'Gascony |
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Armagnac dreams |
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Marciac fun |
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For my kids at the college of Marciac |
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Marciac moon |
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D'Artagnan |
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Guy Lafitte |
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B is for Boussaget |
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In the house of Laberriere |
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Sunflowers |
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Customer Reviews |
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GET THIS C.D!! A MUST FOR ALL JAZZ LOVERS!! |
Rating: 5.0 |
we were lucky enough to see wynton and the lincoln centre jazz orchestra at a barbican do a few weeks ago. a consumate professional, the likes of duke ellington. the band had a fabulous clean sound. a combination of trad jazz, some tunes with latin beats, but cool. then the love of my life bought me the marciac suite for valentines day. i have looked for this music all my life. its how i think great jazz ought to sound. its extremely complex in arrangement but terribly easy on the ears. the suite was written as a dedication to the town of marciac in south west france, a population of some 2000 people. wynton and co get down there each summer for some weeks and play and teach. they have a mutual admiration society going, and have erected a bronze statue of him in the town square! i cannot recommend this work highly enough. |
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