Wynton Marsalis - Standard Time, Vol. 4: Marsalis Plays Monk
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Artist: Wynton MarsalisEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Thelonious
- Evidence
- We See
- Monk's Mood
- Worry Later
- Four in One
- Reflections
- In Walked Monk
- Hackensack
- Let's Cool One
- Brilliant Corners
- Brake's Sake
- Ugly Beauty
- Green Chimneys
Free Music Notes for Standard Time, Vol. 4: Marsalis Plays Monk
Free Music Review: One Of The Worst Interpretations Of Monk Tunes I Ever Heard
Hit: 1 Stars
Wynton Marsalis is a great trumpeter. No question that he can swing with the best of them. Unfortunately, this "Standard Time" is the second weakest of the "Standard Time" series. Like all great music, it has to be evaluated carefully.
Here's a brief analysis of "Marsalis Plays Monk" -
The playing on the recording, while all-around good, doesn't do anything for me. It's too static and formulaic. The improvisations aren't that great. Marsalis seems to be holding back a bit from letting his imagination do any real kind of creative thinking. It sounds as though he's just going through the motions instead of trying to capture Monk's music. It sounds almost like it's too "New Orleans" to be Monk. I'm fully aware of where Marsalis came from, but Monk's music doesn't really lend itself to this kind of treatment. In fact, Monk's best work is with smaller groups like a quartet. There are two many instruments not blending well together. The unison lines are sloppy and need more rehearsing. This record sounds more like a jam session.
People can say what they want to about this record, but to me, it doesn't hold up very well and it is, for lack of a better word, uninspired.
Standard Time, Vol. 4: Marsalis Plays Monk Poster
On this 1994 recording, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and trombonist Wycliffe Gordon arrange the music of Thelonious Monk in a warm and witty neoclassic setting that typifies Marsalis's tradition-in-transition approach to jazz. Joining Marsalis and Gordon are drummer Herlin Riley, bassists Reginald Veal and Ben Wolfe, tenor saxophonists Walter Blanding and Victor Goines, Wess Anderson on alto and soprano sax, and pianist Eric Reed.Monk's unconventionally structured blues and riff-based compositions are an important part of the jazz canon and Marsalis and company rise to the task of interpreting them. The 4/4 opener, "Thelonious," features a parade-style, stop-time intro with Anderson's ornithological, Charlie Parker-inspired tones, and Marsalis's burnished brass. The tap-dance feel of "Evidence" is maintained courtesy of the rhythm section, while the whimsical "We See" swings with Anderson's soprano sax and Reed's piano dancing on the melody. "Brake's Sake," "Green Chimneys," and "Worry Later" are solidly set in Riley's Congo Square-Latin-tinged drum work, Marsalis's laughing wah-wah sounds and clarion open horn solos, and Goines's towering tenor. A boppish horn line sets off "Four in One" and "Brilliant Corners" and is brilliantly decoded, while Marsalis's tune "In Walked Monk" (a play on Monk's "In Walked Bud") is reminiscent of Tadd Dameron's ensemble sound. The ballads include the dirgelike "Monk's Mood," with Marsalis's hazy mute, and the twilight-toned "Reflections." On "Ugly Beauty" Marsalis duets with Reed, who throughout this recording synthesizes Monk's dark tonal clusters and stride-piano techniques into his own fleet-fingered keyboard conception. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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