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Track Listing
1. Brother Veal
2. Monologue For Sugar Cane and Sweetie Pie
3. Blue Interlude (The Bittersweet Saga of Sugar Cane and Sweetie Pie)
4. And the Band Played On
5. The Jubilee Suite: Day To Day / Running And Rambling / Grace
6. Sometimes It Goes Like That
Album Notes
Wynton Marsalis Septet: Wynton Marsalis (trumpet, piano); Todd Williams (soprano & tenor saxophones, clarinet); Wessell Anderson (alto saxophone); Wycliffe Gordon (trombone); Marcus Roberts (piano); Reginald Veal (bass); Herlin Riley (drums).
Recorded at BMG Studios, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Stanley Crouch.
Wynton takes us down Blues Alley for this session, right into the New Orleans Heartbreak Hotel. A palpable blues feeling pervade this session--you can almost imagine yourself in a smoky nightclub in the Latin Quarter. The band plays with more swagger here than usual, balancing--in that Ellingtonian sense--rich, precise orchestrations with earthy-as-the-dirt grit. The sax players' sounds are rich with the blues, in the often-overlooked tradition of Jackie McLean, Lou Donaldson, Red Holloway and David "Fathead" Newman. Oh yes, it swings, too, with Charles Mingus-like ferocity at times. Those who think Marsalis' stuff is too "clean" or "traditionally-minded" or "sterile" should pick up this excellent album.
Industry Reviews
Picked by critic Josef Woodard as one of the 10 best jazz albums of 1992.
Jazziz (12/01/1992)
4.5 Stars - Very Good Plus - ...beautifully executes Marsalis' stated fundamentals of jazz: a communal conception of improvising, vocal effects on instruments, swinging rhythms, blues, and a sense of mystery and melancholy...
Down Beat (08/01/1992)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...has the potential to alter the course of contemporary jazz...Excising some of the ego from jazz has been Marsalis's most radical act; the triumph of BLUE INTERLUDE lies in the sum of its parts, not in its individual glories...
Rolling Stone (08/20/1992)
...long notes, luxuriant horn textures, slow, bluesy tempos, and long-form compositions... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (07/31/1992)
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