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Review - The Spiritual Side of Wynton Marsalis
“And the glory goes to God.” The penultimate cut “To Higher Ground” arguably sums things up best on Wynton Marsalis’ “spiritual” compilation, fittingly titled The Spiritual Side of Wynton Marsalis. Keep reading »
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Review - Wynton Marsalis: Swinging into the 21st
I’ll admit it. When I ripped open a padded envelope last week and found a copy of Wynton Marsalis’ new box set Swinging into the 21st my heart sank. What could be said about Wynton Marsalis that hasn’t already been said? Then I started doing some research and realized that, my god, there is a lot about Wynton Marsalis that I don’t know. Keep reading »
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Review - Wynton Marsalis: Standards and Ballads
The complaint that some jazz folks have with Wynton Marsalis is that, way too soon in his career, he became an outspoken proponent of all that was old-fashioned and conventional. Keep reading »
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Review - Popular Songs: the Best of Wynton Marsalis
Popular Songs: The Best of Wynton Marsalis celebrates Wynton Marsalis’s 40th birthday, which is also, coincidentally, the 40th anniversary of the death of jazz. Wynton Marsalis was born in ‘61, just when Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Cecil Taylor were “fucking up everybody” (Miles Davis) on the NY scene. Keep reading »
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For immediate release - Popular Songs: The Best of Wynton Marsalis
The first ‘Best Of’ compilation of his career — with over 73 minutes of originals and standards spanning 1987 to 1999 — is set for June 26th in-store date on Columbia/Legacy Keep reading »