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Wynton Marsalis: Sister Cheryl (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 07, 08

Generally when the drummer contributes a composition to the date, it comes dressed in meager threads—a few chords sti...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY VINTAGE WYNTON MARSALIS

Wynton Marsalis may be the most frequently discussed musician in jazz, but also among the least well understood. ...

Wynton Marsalis: Who Can I Turn To (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 07, 08

This is the simplest and least ostentatious track on Wynton Marsalis's debut LP on Columbia, and it would be easy to ...

Wynton Marsalis: A Foggy Day (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 03, 09

The opening bars seem to herald a relaxed rendition of an old standard. But thirty seconds into the track, bassist H...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY VINTAGE WYNTON MARSALIS

Wynton Marsalis may be the most frequently discussed musician in jazz, but also among the least well understood. ...

Marcus Roberts: East of the Sun (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 31, 07

You have to give Marsalis points for including this trio track -- on which he doesn’t even play -- in the second CD i...

Wynton Marsalis: Blood on the Fields (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 22, 07

Wynton Marsalis has built a career on high ambitions—including (for a start) assimilating the music vocabulary from H...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY VINTAGE WYNTON MARSALIS

Wynton Marsalis may be the most frequently discussed musician in jazz, but also among the least well understood. ...

Wynton Marsalis: In This House, On This Morning (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 23, 09

There are many tempting pigeonholes in which to place this 2-hour work by Mr. Marsalis. You could call it his perso...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY VINTAGE WYNTON MARSALIS

Wynton Marsalis may be the most frequently discussed musician in jazz, but also among the least well understood. ...

Wynton Marsalis: Black Codes (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 10, 09

Say what you want about Wynton Marsalis the person but Wynton Marsalis the trumpeter, especially during the 1980s, p...

Wynton Marsalis: The Majesty of the Blues (The Puheeman Strut) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music June 15, 08

This performance marks a major turning point in the career of Wynton Marsalis. Before this recording, Marsalis was a...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY VINTAGE WYNTON MARSALIS

Wynton Marsalis may be the most frequently discussed musician in jazz, but also among the least well understood. ...

Wynton Marsalis: Delfeayo’s Dilemma (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music October 24, 07

On Black Codes, then 23-year-old Wynton Marsalis shakes the all-too-apparent influences of his earlier years to expan...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL MODERN JAZZ TRUMPET SOLOS

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Wynton Marsalis: Chambers of Tain (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music December 01, 07

My CD copy of this release does not provide any composer information, or list the musicians, or even tell you the sta...

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Wynton Marsalis may be the most frequently discussed musician in jazz, but also among the least well understood. ...

Wynton Marsalis: Knozz-Moe-King (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 22, 09

The title of the song may demand "No Smoking," but this band is clearly in violation of the city ordinance. In fact, ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY VINTAGE WYNTON MARSALIS

Wynton Marsalis may be the most frequently discussed musician in jazz, but also among the least well understood. ...

Wynton Marsalis: The Sun and the Moon (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 23, 09

If the people who invented New Orleans jazz had played in 15/8, they might have composed songs like this one. As it ...

Wynton Marsalis: J Mood (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

Even as a teenager, Wynton Marsalis dazzled audiences with the sureness of his technique and the power and beauty of ...

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Wynton Marsalis may be the most frequently discussed musician in jazz, but also among the least well understood. ...

Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Stardust (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music July 02, 08

This Hoagy Carmichael song may be a venerable jazz standard, but country star Willie Nelson has recorded a version th...

Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Basin Street Blues (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 02, 08

Wynton Marsalis's credentials as an exponent of New Orleans jazz are well known. But Willie Nelson sounds like he ha...

Carole King (featuring Wynton Marsalis): I Wasn't Gonna Fall In Love (Rating: 84/100) posted in Music February 13, 09

Wynton Marsalis's vast legacy isn't about to be diluted by a single appearance on a superstar pop artist's track. Sti...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WHEN JAZZ CATS MEET ROCKERS

Jazz musicians performing sidemen roles on recording dates of non-jazz performances is a practice nearly as old as ja...

Wynton Marsalis: Concerto in E-flat Major for Trumpet and Orchestra by Joseph Haydn (first movement) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 04, 09

No, it's not jazz—duh!—but anyone who wants to come to grips with the phenomenon of Wynton Marsalis needs to hear his...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY VINTAGE WYNTON MARSALIS

Wynton Marsalis may be the most frequently discussed musician in jazz, but also among the least well understood. ...

Wynton Marsalis: The Ways of Love (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 03, 09

Marsalis's evocative writing for the score of the 1990 film Tune in Tomorrow was a further indication of his progress...

Wynton Marsalis: Hesitation (Live 1982) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 04, 09

I was in attendance when this track was recorded, sitting in the second-to-last row—the best I could afford on my tig...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY VINTAGE WYNTON MARSALIS

Wynton Marsalis may be the most frequently discussed musician in jazz, but also among the least well understood. ...

Art Blakey (featuring Wynton Marsalis): How Deep Is the Ocean? (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music January 07, 08

I still remember the intense buzz when Art Blakey brought this band to San Francisco's Keystone Korner. The jazz cog...

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Wynton Marsalis may be the most frequently discussed musician in jazz, but also among the least well understood. ...

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