Wynton Marsalis: STANDARDS, is a 14-song compilation of selections from all five Marsalis Standard Time Volumes (1987-1999), as well as other Columbia albums. STANDARDS includes notes by renowned writer, journalist and jazz critic Stanley Crouch. Album highlights include "When It's Sleepytime Down South," "April in Paris," Ellington's "Melancholia" and Monk's "Reflections." Shirley Horn appears on the album singing "I Can't Get Started" from the soundtrack to the film Tune in Tomorrow.

Branford Marsalis is one of the most revered and renowned Jazz musicians in the world. THE SHEEP ANTHOLOGY is the first career-spanning collection of Branford's richest and most impassioned recordings for Columbia Records. Featuring 10 expansive tracks and over one hour of music, this stellar collection truly is the best of Branford Marsalis. THE STEEP ANTHOLOGY also includes one previously unreleased live recording. Album tracks include "Doctone," "Maria," "Royal Gardens Blues." [Note: This product is an authorized CD-R and is manufactured on demand].

Big Train is the 4th release in Marsalis's unprecedented 8-CD series titled Swinging Into the 21st (this historic series features a release of new Marsalis music each month from April through September). Debuted with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in 1998 (also featured during a 1998 U.S. tour), Big Train is a remarkable musical journey, a significant new entry in Marsalis's compositional scope from jazz to classical and beyond.

Ellis Marsalis's role in jazz is not just limited to his mastery of the piano; he is also a renowned jazz educator. Former pupils include (in addition to his sons) Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison, Harry Connick Jr.., among others. On this album, Ellis pays tribute to Duke Ellington on the year Duke's centennial. Features the original composition "Duke in Blue" which is Ellis poignant tribute to one of the most important figures in the history of American music. This will take listeners on a journey back to the roots of jazz.

HOTHOUSE FLOWERS

STANDARD TIME 2: INTIMACY CALLING

BLUE INTERLUDE

Troubadour Jass Records is excited to announce the 2010 Delfeayo Marsalis release: Sweet Thunder (Duke & Shak). This recording combines Delfeayo's performance, orchestration and production skills into a jazz masterpiece that would certainly make it's contributing historical figures, Duke Ellington & William Shakespeare, proud. Sweet Thunder features a cast of today's finest jazz performers including Branford & Jason Marsalis, Mulgrew Miller, Victor Goines, Charnett Moffett, Reginald Veal and Winard Harper; all of whom combine modern musings with an "old school" groove, blues and swing. Ellington's original suite, inspired by Shakespearean themes and characters, was composed for a 15-piece jazz orchestra that featured various solo instrumentalists performing musical sonnets and poems. Delfeayo Marsalis has orchestrated this dramatic work for octet, extended the melodic material and created new solo forms that highlight his group's individual and collective strengths.

CD reissue. Black Codes (From the Underground) is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that won two Grammy Awards in 1986: Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group and Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist. Wynton is an American virtuoso trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has been awarded nine Grammy Awards and is the only musician to win a Grammy Award in jazz and classical during the same year.

Original Street Date 8/30/24 Crescent City Jewels is like a Gratitude Journal in song, a rollicking collection that sets out to celebrate the undersung heroes of the band's hometown bringing together a host of veteran and rising New Orleans musicians for a high-spirited big band session.

Branford Marsalis Quartet - "Belonging" Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, one of the foremost jazz artists of our time and a pacesetting creative force in music for more than four decades, makes his Blue Note debut with Belonging, a full album reinterpretation of Keith Jarrett's 1974 ECM album of the same name which was the debut of the pianist's European Quartet. Belonging is Marsalis' first new release since 2019 with his acclaimed longstanding quartet featuring pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Justin Faulkner. Capitol Music Group; Blue Note; Jazz.

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, one of the foremost jazz artists of our time and a pacesetting creative force in music for more than four decades, makes his Blue Note debut with Belonging, a full album reinterpretation of Keith Jarrett's 1974 ECM album of the same name which was the debut of the pianist's European Quartet. Belonging is Marsalis' first new release since 2019 with his acclaimed longstanding quartet featuring pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Justin Faulkner.

This selection is also available in Super Audio CD format.

This recording represents a tour de force on the part of all concerned, so much so that the entire text of the booklet is devoted to explaining how it was accomplished. There is one concerto for solo trumpet (Michael Haydn), one for two (Vivaldi RV537), two (Telemann, in B flat and D) and an arrangement of the ubiquitous Canon of Pachelbel for three, and Biber's Sonata in A major for no less than eight trumpets, but Marsalis is the only trumpeter present. There is nothing new in over-dubbing—the jazz guitarist Les Paul did spectacular things with it in the 1950s, but in the realm of art-music Marsalis must have earned a place in the Guinness Book of Music, aptly aided by Telemann, who is already in there. I leave you to read about it and to marvel at the sheer skill of it all. If any living trumpet player is in more awesome command of his instrument than Marsalis I do not know who it might be; all things seem possible to him, and easily at that. Ivan March noted (1/86) a certain lack of lyrical warmth in his playing and I must agree with him; jazz musicians often feel constrained to be on their best behaviour when 'crossing the tracks' but I find even his jazz playing cerebral rather than emotionally stirring, so that is probably just the way he is—and it shows just a little in the slow movement of the Haydn. However, the programme has much to do with ceremonial magnificence (coupled in the Biber with stunning spatial antiphony) and sheer virtuosity, both present in abundance and delivered with wonderful roundness of tone, free from aggressive brassiness and any sense of strain, as an ex-trumpet player it frightens me to death! The recording is superb in its quality, balance and sense of space, making this a 'must' for anyone who does not actually hate the trumpet.

-- John Duarte, Gramophone [6/1988]

This recording/performance is also available on MiniDisc.

Multiple Grammy-winner Wynton Marsalis recently made history as the 1st jazz musician ever to win the Pulitzer Prize (for jazz opera Blood on the Fields). He was also voted one of the Top 25 Most Influential People in America by Time Magazine. Now, one of this country's foremost celebrities releases Jump Start And Jazz, 2 original compositions - each commissioned and premiered as ballets in New York City. This recording features the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, joined by special guest Branford Marsalis.

Classical Music

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Original Soundtrack) by Branford Marsalis The Netflix film features Chadwick Boseman's final performance and Viola Davis in the title role. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is the new Netflix film, out December 18, that stars Viola Davis as blues icon Ma Rainey and the late Chadwick Boseman in his final on-screen performance. Tthe soundtrack featuresoriginal music from Branford Marsalis.

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Milan Records announces the release of MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (MUSIC FROM THE NETFLIX FILM), an album of music from Netflix’s newest original film about “Mother of the Blues” Ma Rainey. The album features score music by critically-acclaimed saxophonist, instrumentalist, composer, bandleader and educator BRANFORD MARSALIS, as well as newly-recorded covers of both popular Ma Rainey tracks and blues and jazz standards from the era. The multi-GRAMMY Award® winner brings over four decades of experience across stylistic boundaries to the project, imbuing the film with an authentic 1920s Chicago soundscape.

Of the soundtrack, composer BRANFORD MARSALIS says, “When George Wolfe called to ask me to compose music for his upcoming film, the project forced me to quickly fill in a gap in my musical experience: addressing the music of the 1920’s. I was excited about learning a new sound for my aural library and had to get right to work... Having only written arrangements for the modern big band (17 instruments, no strings), I looked forward to the challenge of writing in a ‘20s format and convincing the musicians to play the music as authentically as possible.”

Director GEORGE C. WOLFE adds, “When I signed on to direct Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, I instantly knew I wanted to work with Branford Marsalis, because when you collaborate with Branford the composer/arranger, Branford the historian, musicologist, dramatist and raconteur shows up as well. And because he understands the inherently transgressive nature of the blues, Branford’s arrangements capture not only the cultural and regional DNA in Ma Rainey’s songs, but the wit and rage embedded in every note, shout and moan.”

Chicago, 1927. A recording session. Tensions rise between Ma Rainey (Viola Davis), her ambitious horn player (Chadwick Boseman), and the white management determined to control the legendary “Mother of the Blues.” Based on Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson's play. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, directed by George C. Wolfe. Adapted for the screen by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Produced by Denzel Washington, Todd Black and Dany Wolf. Starring Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman, Michael Potts, Taylour Paige, Jonny Coyne, Jeremy Shamos and Dusan Brown.