The Marciac Suite
Released: 1999
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Released: 1999
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The eighth installment in Marsalis' exhaustive series of 1999 releases, this disc was originally offered as a freebie in the mail only if you bought the previous seven, and it didn't appear in the...
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Jump Start and Jazz
Released: 1996
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Released: 1996
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These ballets, each lasting a few minutes over half an hour, are mostly written-out compositions with jazz rhythm sections and jazz inflections from the players. As in much of Marsalis' writing in...
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Live in Swing Town
Released: 1994
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Released: 1994
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The Wynton Marsalis Septet is featured live in concert on this European import. Although the release might be a bootleg (since Marsalis has long been signed to Columbia), the music is well recorded...
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Baroque Music for Trumpets
Released: 1988
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Released: 1988
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In trying to cover the classical solo trumpet concerto repertoire, Wynton Marsalis quickly realized that the number of options were rather finite (as opposed to, say, the violin), so he proposed an...
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Carnaval
Released: 1987
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Released: 1987
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Here, Wynton Marsalis switches to cornet and tries to recreate the ambience of the proverbial village wind bands of long ago -- albeit with the emphatically big-league help of Donald Hunsberger and...
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Original Soundtrack from "Tune in Tomorrow"
Released: 1989
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Released: 1989
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This soundtrack recording is very significant in the career of Wynton Marsalis. For the first time the trumpeter displayed a sound of his own; the Miles Davis influence was finally gone. In...
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