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Wynton Marsalis
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.0436
Wynton Marsalis Album Rankings
1
This double CD contains Wynton Marsalis' score for the modern ballet Griot New York.
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2
This is probably the best Wynton Marsalis recording from hisMiles Davisperiod.
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3
The History of Jazz is one of rules constantly being rewritten and Wynton Marsalis knows it.
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4
None other than Miles Davis himself pronounced trumpeter Wynton Marsalis a "perfect player," but that may have been damning with faint praise there was little grit in Marsalis's playing before
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5
As a trumpet player, Wynton Marsalis is a true phenomenon.
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6
As the fourth volume of Wynton Marsalis' ongoingStandard Timeproject, as well as the first volume of his planned eight-disc seriesSwinging into the 2,Marsalis Plays Monkarrives with some baggage -- bu
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7
This has been a fantastic year for female singer-songwriters.
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8
A double-live set by a Wynton quintet, this has all the ingredients so often lacking in his studio work--a sense of joy in spontaneity, excitement and heat.
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9
When Branford Marsalis and Kenny Kirkland chose to leave Wynton Marsalis's group to make money with Sting, Wynton had to regroup fast.
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10
Jazz with conventional orchestral (i.e.
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11
Jazz Christmas albums can be mighty jivey but this is a pleasant mixed bag of holiday cheer with guests ranging from clarinetist Alvin Batiste to opera soprano Kathleen Battle .
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13
As artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis became something of a self-deputized defender of classic jazz.
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14
For a weighty package recorded over a few years--1990 through 1994, all in the comfy basement vibe of the Village Vanguard--and presented in a multi-course meal of seven CDs, Wynton Marsalis 's lates
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15
First names of jazz: Louis; Charlie; Dizzy; Billie; Thelonious; Miles; Ornette; Wynton...
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39
Approximations For purely circumstantial reasons, I've missed seeing Ken Burns' Jazz in its entirety. What I've seen suggested a preoccupation with public history at the expense of jazz histories.
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43
Another double CD this is long piece of program music depicting a long Sunday morning church service.
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46
Marsalis's Columbia debut as a leader sounds modest in retrospect with the then 19-year-old trumpeter staking out his area of interest.
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50
In an achievement of breathtaking scope and ambition, Wynton Marsalis has created a mammoth, virtuoso work unprecedented in jazz.
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