As Serenity Approaches

As Serenity Approaches

ASIN: B00000057T

Editorial Reviews
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Roberts has a way of letting his technique get in the way. The man's always showing off how many notes he can play, rarely letting the audience get inside the spaces between them. Anyone who can get past the opening take on "Cherokee" is a brave, patient soul. But Roberts is more Jelly Roll Morton than Thelonious Monk, anyway, a stride fetishist who cut his teeth playing in postbop bands (most notably, Wynton Marsalis's). Indeed, it's Marsalis's cameo that makes this record worth the price of admission. When he shows up laying down some old-school muted horn on Morton's "King Porter Stomp," you wonder why he hides that sly humor and warmth on his own recordings. But this is Roberts' coming-out party: His take on Duke Ellington's "Creole Stomp" will break your heart, and his "Where or When" will put it back together again. --Robert Wilonsky

From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD
New Orleans pianist Marcus Roberts plays with warmth of blues feeling, profluent ideas rooted in jazz/blues piano history, beautiful sound, and absolute instrumental mastery. He's a precocious artist who seems to perform for his own sake rather than the audience's, yet without self-consciousness, and it is a privilege to hear him employ mood, tempo, melody, and harmony en route to a state of poetic placidity. On his third RCA outing he performs solo and in duet settings with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, pianist Ellis Marsalis, and three other searching musicians at the Big Easy's St. Joseph Cathedral. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993

Tracks:

Cherokee
Angel
Slippin' And Slidin'
Blues In The Evening Time
Ferdinand LeMenthe
Night Eve
As Serenity Approaches
The Jitterbug Waltz
St. Louis Blues
I Remember You
Preach, Reverend, Preach
A Tint Of Blue
When The Morning Comes
Where Or When
King Porter Stomp
Creole Blues
Broadway
Angel
Cherokee

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Roberts has a way of letting his technique get in the way. The man's always showing off how many notes he can play, rarely letting the audience get inside the spaces between them. Anyone who can get past the opening take on "Cherokee" is a brave, patient soul. But Roberts is more Jelly Roll Morton than Thelonious Monk, anyway, a stride fetishist who cut his teeth playing in postbop bands (most notably, Wynton Marsalis's). Indeed, it's Marsalis's cameo that makes this record worth the price of admission. When he shows up laying down some old-school muted horn on Morton's "King Porter Stomp," you wonder why he hides that sly humor and warmth on his own recordings. But this is Roberts' coming-out party: His take on Duke Ellington's "Creole Stomp" will break your heart, and his "Where or When" will put it back together again. --Robert Wilonsky

Customer Reviews:

Tears to my eyes.......2003-12-22

This is my favorite album of a great musician. His "I Remember You" brought tears to my eyes. I've never heard such a emotion evoking piece on the piano. Marcus plays with his soul like few others. I don't know what the first editorial reviewer likes normally, but I had no problem with Marcus' technique. I like it, it gives a depth to the music. I prefer his solo piano stuff to the group stuff, but all of it is great music.

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A LESSON IN THE AMERICAN CLASSICAL ARTFORM

As Serenity Approaches
Marcus Roberts , and Marcus Roberts
Manufacturer: Scde
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Customer Reviews:

A LESSON IN THE AMERICAN CLASSICAL ARTFORM.......2001-07-31

THIS IS JUST A PURE PLEASURABLE LISTENING EXPERIENCE. THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE JAZZ RECORDINGS...I HAD THIS ON CASSETTE BUT I FOOLISHLY LET A "FRIEND" BORROW IT...HE SAYS HIS DADDY (A FORMER MUSICIAN WHO USE TO PLAY WITH CANNONBALL ADDERLY) LOST IT!! YEAH, RIGHT....ANYWAY, I'M GONNA GET THIS ON CD ASAP...IT'S PRETTY GOOD. NOTHIN' SMOOTH, JUST JAZZ.

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