Wynton Marsalis - Big Train
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Artist: Wynton MarsalisEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-07-13
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- All Aboard
- Observation Car
- Union Pacific Big Boy
- Smokestack Shuffle
- Northbound-Southbound
- Dining Car
- Night Train
- Engine
- Bullet Train
- Sleeper Car
- Station Call
- The Caboose
Free Music Notes for Big Train
Free Music Review: A Great Progressive Big Band Album!
Hit: 5 Stars
Let me start off by saying this album isn't going to appeal to everyone, but if you've been listening to jazz a long time like I have and you enjoy Duke Ellington, then you're going to find that there's alot to enjoy here.
Wynton Marsalis is joined by the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra, which are a very fine big band. They play the material very well. There's alot of to enjoy here. The musicians are Rodney Whitaker (bass), Herlin Riley (drums), Victor Goines (tenor and soprano saxophone), Walter Blanding Jr. (tenor and soprano saxophone), Wessell Anderson (alto saxophone), Wycliffe Gordon (trombone), Ronald Westray (trombone), Joe Temperley (clarinet) Walter Blanding Jr. (clarinet), Joe Temperle (baritone sax), Victor Goines (baritone sax), Victor Goines (clarinet), and Farid Barron (piano). All musicians completely realize Marsalis' musical vision on this great recording and all play exceptionally well.
I don't see this album as an attempt to recreate Ellington's music, but rather an hommage to his work. The Marsalis trademark is all over the place. If you've been following his work for long, then you will know what I'm talking about.
This is a fantastic piece of music and should be heard as a whole to be fully appreciated. I highly recommend this one!
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Train sounds hold a special mythic space in Afro-American folklore, literature, and music, and on this CD Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra explore and expand these railroad resonances in grand fashion. With Duke Ellington as the spiritual "conductor," Marsalis and his crew guide the listener through the syncopated scenery of America's harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic places and spaces. As always, Marsalis is in top form, growling and sliding in vivid locomotive tones driven by his trumpeting cohorts including Marcus Printup and Ryan Kisor. Saxophonists Wess Anderson, Victor Goines, Walter Blanding Jr., and Joe Temperley brilliantly recombine essences of Paul Gonsalves, Johnny Hodges, and Harry Carney. With this CD, it's apparent that Marsalis's grasp of the compositional demands of a large ensemble is still growing and traveling in the right direction. --Eugene Holley Jr.Jazz Music CDs
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