Marsalis Standard Time, Vol.1

Marsalis Standard Time, Vol.1 Artist: Wynton Marsalis
Label: Sony
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 074644046120
EAN: 0074644046120
ASIN: B000002683


Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Listmania:

  1. IN THE POCKET TRUMPET PLAYERS VOL.VI
  2. IN THE POCKET
  3. Jazz Studies
  4. A Broad Range of Great Music
  5. STANDARDS' TIME II
  6. My Favorite Jazz CDs
  7. Be a fanatic Wynton Marsalis fan
  8. My Favorite Trumpet Albums
  9. My Favorite Jazz Albums
  10. WeWantWynton!!!

Tracks:

  1. Caravan
  2. April In Paris
  3. Cherokee
  4. Goodbye
  5. New Orleans
  6. Soon All Will Know
  7. A Foggy Day
  8. The Song Is You
  9. Memories Of You
  10. In The Afterglow
  11. Autumn Leaves
  12. Cherokee (Version)

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  1. Standard Time, Vol.2: Intimacy Calling
  2. Standard Time, Vol.3: The Resolution Of Romance
  3. Standard Time, Vol.5: The Midnight Blues
  4. Standard Time, Vol. 4: Marsalis Plays Monk
  5. Standard Time, Vol. 6: Mr. Jelly Lord

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Intense swinging with top quality sound from a premier jazz quartet.......2007-01-27

This swings wonderfully all the way through, with top musicians improvising on great tunes. I have owned this CD for many years, and it still gets regular play; it is good both for parties and for very stimulating private listening. Ignore that arrogant cr*p about this being a "fine starting point for Jazz novices". THIS IS A GREAT JAZZ CD FOR EVERYONE.

Wynton's trumpet is joined by piano (Marcus Roberts), bass (Bob Hurst), and drums (Jeff Watts). This intimate quartet format allows direct and vivid connection to the music. There is no "free jazz" or old style New Orleans stuff; every track is quite pleasurable to the casual modern ear. Recorded in May and September of 1986 at RCA studios, the sound quality is excellent. This record won a Grammy Award in 1988 for "Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group". This is absolutely first rate, straight ahead jazz.

Wynton Marsalis made two other recordings at RCA studios in the 1980s with a similar sound that also won Grammys: "J Mood", (recorded Dec 1985) featuring the same set of musicians, and "Black Codes from the Underground", (recorded Jan 1985) which includes his brother Branford on tenor sax.

5 out of 5 stars Standard Wynton.......2006-03-10

For those that are not familiar with Wynton Marsalis, this is a great starting point. Everything on this album is straight-ahead, and really swings. Surprisingly, no dixielandesque tunes, considering that most of his albums include one or two from that time period.

He is joined by Marcus Roberts on piano, who is one of my favorite modern jazz pianists; Robert Hurst on bass; and drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts, another favorite of mine.

There are two takes of "Cherokee" on this album, both taken at breakneck speed as what would be expected of Wynton. Though both are fairly short in length (both under 2 1/2 minutes), he plays some incredible lines on the trumpet and just cooks with the rhythm section. It took me a few listens to get that Marcus is playing the melody at the beginning, and Wynton was simply playing a rhythmic figure on top of it... for whatever reason.

However, in my opinion, Wynton has not made much of an improvement since this early recording from an improvisational standpoint. He obviously knows his way around the horn, but his playing to me anyway seems to lack direction.

5 out of 5 stars A blend of various styles.......2004-12-24

This is one of my favorite albums 'cause it has a real beginning in the jazz era. You see Wynton puts it all on one CD. I originally burn it on tape once so the matter of it is I'ma still buy the oringal and keep the copied one on blank cassette.

Wynton is one my heroes which I'll say. He's one of the first pioneers to change the way our culture is in American music. I seen him started off as a solo artist of his own time, begin making Grammy-nominated jazz and classical albums, then forming his quartets, quintets, 9-piece band and now the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra which he's now the artistic director there. I would love and come visit him and may be the 1st trumpet on 3rd chair alongside the 1st and 2nd trumpets.

I'm really a good trumpet player and a huge jazz lover. So I listen to it occasionally just to help me keep going.

4 out of 5 stars An Excellent Introduction to Jazz.......2003-12-31

I have been an avid jazz listener for some time, and have kept track of Mr. Marsalis' carrer. I believe that this is an exceptionally accessable CD for those who are not musicians and want to learn about jazz. Far from the Free Jazz of the 60s, but evolved from the bebop era, this CDs created a time and place in my life that did not let me stop listening--even though I am not a musician.

5 out of 5 stars Superb.......2001-08-20

This is one of my favorite jazz albums. Few young jazz players (anyone born after the late Fifties) can interpret standards as well as Marsalis and the other musicians on this recording. To play a tune that's been played so many times before and give it new life takes talent and an understanding of the music. All the men on this album have that talent and understanding.

One of the other reviewers complained that there are no more Monks or Shorters out there. Well, thank God for that! It'd be an awfully dull world if everyone sounded alike. Thankfully the cats on this record are different from those who came before; they sound diferent and they have different ideas, yet they all understand what jazz is. They know how to communicate and express themselves through music.

David Bradley misunderstands jazz when he comments about jazz losing "it's place as America's most popular music when composition was given a back seat to soloists." What he's referring to is swing and dance band music. Real jazz came about with the soloists of the bebop era. That individual expression is the heart and soul of jazz. If you want to hear it done right, listen to Marsalis and his boys.

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  2. Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert ~ Benny Goodman
  3. Speaking of Now ~ Pat Metheny Group
  4. Black Codes (From the Underground) ~ Wynton Marsalis
  5. Out of the Blue ~ Maysa
  6. Happy Hour/Motion ~ Deodato
  7. The Great Concert of Charles Mingus ~ Charles Mingus
  8. The Far East Suite Special Mix ~ Duke Ellington
  9. The Best of David Sanborn ~ David Sanborn
  10. A Smooth Jazz Retreat ~ Various Artists

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