Wynton Marsalis - From The Plantation To The Penitentiary
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Artist: Wynton MarsalisEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-03-06
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- From the Plantation to the Penitentiary
- Find Me
- Doin' (Y)our Thing
- Love and Broken Hearts
- Supercapitalism
- These Are Those Soulful Days
- Where Y'all At?
Free Music Notes for From The Plantation To The Penitentiary
Free Music Review: Not One Of His Best
Hit: 1 Stars
Wynton Marsalis is a monster trumpeter, no doubt about that, but "From The Plantation To The Penitentiary" is probably one of the worst albums I've heard from him. His output these last couple of years has been far from good.
The music, herein, isn't up to par with his early material from the 80s or early 90s, it is simply Marsalis selling out and trying to please somebody. Wynton has been a very opinionated voice of modern jazz and has critqued others in the past about what constitues jazz music. "From The Plantation To The Penitentiary" is merely a contradiction to those very thoughts. This isn't "jazz" from the eyes of Marsalis, but jazz through the eyes of the public. It doesn't swing like it his other music, there's no melody worth holding on to, the vocals are truly terrible, and the improvisations are uninspired.
If you want to hear Wynton Marsalis in all his glory pickup the following: "Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. 1," "Standard Time, Vol. 2: Intimacy Calling," "Standard Time, Vol. 3: The Resolution of Romance," "Black Codes (From The Underground)," and "J Mood." All of these albums represent the swinging, the lyrical, and the furious bebop trumpet of Marsalis.
From The Plantation To The Penitentiary Poster
"We running all over the world with a blunderbuss/And the Constitution all but forgot in the fuss," Wynton Marsalis declaims on "Where Y'All At?"--the raucous theatrical finale to From the Plantation to the Penitentiary. As unusual as it may be for the celebrated trumpeter to present himself as a kind of soap box rapper, underwhelmingly taking aim at "supercapitalists," liberals, and rappers alike, the most notable departure here is his prominent feature of a vocalist, young Jennifer Sanon. A winner of the Essentially Ellington high school competition, she has real appeal and is smart, silky-toned, and calmly assured beyond her 21 years. The influence of the mighty Abbey Lincoln is felt in both the directness of her delivery and the soulful expansiveness of the music, performed by a quintet. Though Marsalis gets his time in the spotlight, playing with brittle strength as well as his customary warmth, he is generous in shining a spotlight on his bandmates, including a pair of talented up-and-comers in pianist Dan Nimmer and bassist Carlos Henriquez, drummer Ali Jackson, Jr. and saxophonist Walter Blanding, who, 15 years after being introduced on the "Tough Young Tenors" album and in spite of his stellar contributions to Marsalis' Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, doesn't get the attention he should. --Lloyd SachsJazz Music CDs
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