|
The Branford Marsalis Quartet
The Branford Marsalis Quartet is a jazz band. Current members *Branford Marsalis – saxophones *Joey Calderazzo - piano (1999–present) *Eric Revis - bass guitar (1997–present) * Justin Faulkner - drums (2009–present) Past members *Jeff "Tain" Watts - drums (1986–2009) *Kenny Kirkland - piano (1987–1998) * Robert Hurst - bass guitar Discography *1986 ''Royal Garden Blues'' *1987 ''Renaissance'' *1988 ''Random Abstract'' *1990 ''Crazy People Music'' *1991 '' I Heard You Twice the First Time'' *1998 ''Requiem'' *2000 '' Contemporary Jazz'' *2002 '' Footsteps of Our Fathers'' *2003 ''Romare Bearden Revealed'' *2004 ''Eternal'' *2004 '' Coltrane's A Love Supreme Live'' *2006 ''Braggtown'' *2009 ''Metamorphosen'' *2012 ''Four MFs Playin' Tunes'' *2016 ''Upward Spiral'' *2019 '' The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul'' See also *Marsalis Music Marsalis Music is a jazz record label founded by Branford Marsalis in 2002. After 20 years with Columbia, saxophonist Bran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Heard You Twice The First Time
''I Heard You Twice the First Time'' is a jazz album by Branford Marsalis that explores different aspects of the blues, featuring guest appearances from B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Russell Malone, Wynton Marsalis and Linda Hopkins. It peaked at number 1 on the Top Jazz Albums chart.Allmusic Guide/ref> The album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group. Reception In his AllMusic review, Scott Yanow calls the album "interesting if erratic," specifically identifying the performance by Linda Hopkins and concluding that this is an "intriguing set that is worth picking up." ''People'' praised the album, calling out the "four distinct blues-guitar styles" and the "verve and execution" of the quartet numbers as high points. ''Entertainment Weekly'' characterized Marsalis as "a commanding, even great, saxophonist of the post-hard-bop school, but a wayward conceptualist," and criticized the album as suffering from a "serious identity crisis." Track l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post-bop Ensembles
Post-bop is a genre of small-combo jazz that evolved in the early to mid 1960s in the United States. Pioneers of the genre, such as Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane and Jackie McLean, crafted syntheses of hard bop with contemporaneous developments in avant-garde jazz, modal jazz and free jazz that resulted in music with a complex and experimental flavor though still rooted in bop tradition, featuring less of the blues and soul leanings predominant in hard bop. The movement had a significant impact on subsequent generations of both acoustic jazz and fusion musicians. Definition Post-bop refers to a body of music that emerged in the late 1950s and 60s that combined principles of bebop, hard bop, modal jazz, avant-garde and free jazz, but also departed from earlier traditions in jazz. Post-bop can refer to a variety of Jazz music that is post-bebop chronologically but in the common understanding post-bop music reflects these influences: the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Jazz Ensembles
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsalis Music
Marsalis Music is a jazz record label founded by Branford Marsalis in 2002. After 20 years with Columbia, saxophonist Branford Marsalis left to start his own label. Early musicians to the label included Miguel Zenón, a Puerto Rican saxophonist, Doug Wamble, a guitarist from Tennessee, and Harry Connick Jr., who, like the Marsalis family, is from New Orleans. The catalogue includes ''The Marsalis Family: A Jazz Celebration'', and ''Music Redeems'', the only recorded performances of the father and sons together (father Ellis with sons Branford, Wynton, Delfeayo, and Jason). The catalogue also includes '' Romare Bearden Revealed'', a tribute to the visual artist created in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of his work curated by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. In 2006, the label inaugurated the Honors Series to pay tribute to underappreciated musicians. The series has featured Michael Carvin, Jimmy Cobb, Bob French, and Alvin Batiste. Marsalis Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Between The Shadow And The Soul
''The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul'' is a live album by the Branford Marsalis Quartet. The album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Album. Track listing # "Dance of the Evil Toys" (Eric Revis) – 8:23 # "Conversation Among the Ruins" (Joey Calderazzo) – 8:46 # "Snake Hip Waltz" ( Andrew Hill) – 5:51 # "Cianna" (Joey Calderazzo) – 7:32 # "Nilaste" (Eric Revis) – 10:15 # "Life Filtering from the Water Flowers" (Branford Marsalis) – 9:00 # "The Windup" (Keith Jarrett Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American jazz and classical music pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has also been a ...) – 12:30 References External links Branford Marsalis Discography branfordmarsalis.com. 2019 albums Branford Marsalis albums {{2010s-jazz-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Elling
Kurt Elling (born November 2, 1967) is an American jazz singer and songwriter. Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Rockford, Illinois, Rockford, Elling became interested in music through his father, who was Kapellmeister at a Lutheran church. He sang in choirs and played musical instruments. He encountered jazz while a student at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. After college, he enrolled in the University of Chicago Divinity School, but he left one credit short of a degree to pursue a career as a jazz vocalist. Elling began to perform around Chicago, scat singing and improvising his lyrics. He recorded a demo in the early 1990s and was signed by Blue Note Records, Blue Note. He has been nominated for ten Grammy Awards, winning Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Best Vocal Jazz Album for ''Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman, Dedicated to You'' (2009) and ''Secrets Are the Best Stories ''(2021). Elling often leads the ''Down ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upward Spiral (album)
''Upward Spiral'' is an album by the Branford Marsalis Quartet with vocalist Kurt Elling. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Recording and music The album was recorded at the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, New Orleans, on December 16–19, 2015. The leader of the quartet, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, had not previously recorded an entire album with one vocalist. The other members were pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Justin Faulkner. The music is a mix of upbeat material and some that "ponders loss, pain, dashed expectations and accommodation to all three". Elling sings "Só Tinha De Ser Com Você" in Portuguese. Release and reception ''Upward Spiral'' was released by Marsalis Music/ OKeh Records on June 10, 2016. The AllMusic reviewer wrote: "''Upward Spiral'' is less an album featuring a singer backed by a jazz ensemble, and more of an album that details the meeting of two highly creative artists whose talents intertwi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braggtown
''Braggtown'' is an album released by The Branford Marsalis Quartet in 2006. The album, following the 2004 Grammy-nominated ''Eternal'', draws upon a world of inspirations, including John Coltrane, a 17th-century English composer, an American Indian Warrior and a Japanese horror film. Marsalis chose some of the new songs from the band's current repertoire, with an emphasis on what he describes as "that kind of high-energy music we've been playing in live performance." This album was named after Braggtown, a neighborhood located in the northeastern corner of Durham, North Carolina, as Marsalis has been a resident of the Durham area for the past few years. The cover of the album shows the four musicians in a locker room in the baseball stadium Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Track listing # "Jack Baker" (Branford Marsalis) - 14:12 # "Hope" (Joey Calderazzo) - 11:01 # "Fate" (Marsalis) - 08:24 # "Blakzilla" (Jeff "Tain" Watts) - 12:40 # "O Solitude" (Henry Purcell) - 07:48 # " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Coltrane
John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pro ..., bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the Jazz#Post-war jazz, history of jazz and 20th-century music. Born and raised in North Carolina, Coltrane moved to Philadelphia after graduating high school, where he studied music. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of Modal jazz, modes and was one of the players at the forefront of free jazz. He led at least fifty recording sessions and appeared on many albums by other musicians, including trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk. Over the course of his career, Coltrane's music t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eternal (Branford Marsalis Album)
''Eternal'' is an album by saxophonist Branford Marsalis recorded at Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown, New York in October 2003. It peaked at number 9 on the Top Jazz Albums chart. The Allmusic review by Matt Collar states, "''Eternal'' finds saxophonist Branford Marsalis in a contemplative mood performing a mix of original and standard ballads... dedicated in memory to a list of people one can only assume were as influential musically on Marsalis as emotionally. Among them are bassist Malachi Favors, drummer Elvin Jones, saxophonist Steve Lacy, and the one and only Ray Charles. Their spirits are palpable here as Marsalis and his band have clearly documented a handful of quietly beautiful and deeply moving performances".Collar, M. Allmusic Reviewaccessed 25 August 2009 Track listing # "The Ruby and the Pearl" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) - 8:52 # "Reika's Loss" (Jeff "Tain" Watts) - 7:51 # "Gloomy Sunday" ( László Jávor, Sam M. Lewis, Rezso Seress) - 12:43 # "The Lonely Swan" ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romare Bearden Revealed
''Romare Bearden Revealed'' is a jazz album by the Branford Marsalis Quartet, featuring Branford Marsalis, Eric Revis, Jeff "Tain" Watts, and Joey Calderazzo, with guest appearances by Harry Connick Jr., Wynton Marsalis, Doug Wamble, Reginald Veal, and other members of the Marsalis family. The album, which was recorded June 23–25, 2003 at Clinton Studios in New York, New York, was recorded in celebration of a retrospective exhibit of the art of Romare Bearden which opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and subsequently traveled to San Francisco, Dallas, New York and Atlanta in 2004 and 2005. The album recorded jazz tunes whose names Bearden had used for paintings as well as original compositions. Reception The album peaked at number 19 on the '' Billboard'' Top Jazz Albums chart. Writing for AllMusic.com, Matt Collar called the album an "earthy and accessible homage" to Bearden, noting strong performances by Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr., and Doug Wamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
