Ellis Marsalis - Ruminations in New York

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:30
Size: 114,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:51)  1. Things That You Never Were
(4:47)  2. A Moment Alone
(4:08)  3. Haven's Paradise
(4:43)  4. Homecoming
(4:27)  5. After
(3:36)  6. Tell Me
(4:31)  7. Somehow
(4:14)  8. Orchid Blue
(3:40)  9. Happiness Is the Thing
(4:08) 10. Chapter One
(5:05) 11. When First We Met
(2:14) 12. Zee Blues

A Striking solo piano album from the renowned new orleans pianist. Ellis Marsalis began his musical career as a tenor saxophonist, switching to piano while in high school. During the late '50s, Ellis trod the lonely road of modernist jazz in new orleans (with drummer ed blackwell), recorded with cannonball and nat adderley in the '60s and between 1967 and 1970, played the piano in trumpeter Al Hirt's band. Since 1989, ellis has been the director of the jazz studies program at the university of new orleans. https://ellismarsalis.bandcamp.com/album/ruminations-in-new-york

Personnel:  Ellis Marsalis (solo piano)

R.I.P.
Born: 14-11-1934
Died: 01-04-2020

Ruminations in New York

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Wallace Roney - Home

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:40
Size: 139,2 MB
Art: Front

( 7:20)  1. Utopia
( 7:28)  2. Home
( 6:50)  3. Pacific Express
(10:20)  4. Plaza Real
( 8:35)  5. Dawn
( 8:06)  6. Evolution of the Blues
( 9:05)  7. Ghost of Yesterday
( 2:53)  8. Revive

Old-school funk and fusion? Contemporary R&B? Straight-ahead jazz? Open-air modal music? One never quite knows what to expect from a new Wallace Roney project-that is, aside from impressive blowing and a tone that, while still sometimes evocative of Miles, is its own thing of beauty: full, resonant, deftly shaded, often moving in unpredictable and mysterious ways. Roney, joined by his regular bandmates and several guests, touches on several of the stylistic strains mentioned above on Home. It’s chockfull of the leader’s dazzling displays, including the long tones and then quick runs of his “Evolution of the Blues”; that tune also offers a showcase for engaging tenor and soprano solos by Antoine Roney, Wallace’s younger brother, buoyed by the rhythmic punches of pianist Aruán Ortiz, bassist Rashaan Carter and drummer Kush Abadey. Roney’s way with a mute, to produce gorgeously dark and smoky sounds, is on display on the floaty title track as well as the exceedingly slow chestnut “Ghost of Yesterday,” limned with Ortiz’s lush chordings.

Wayne Shorter gets a mini-salute here, with opener “Utopia,” an uptempo unplugged tune with plenty of solo space for the horn men and Ortiz, and “Plaza Real,” which benefits from a lovely melody-first voiced by Antoine’s tenor, then joined by the trumpeter-and a fusion-tinted rhythm section. The ’60s/’70s vibe also dominates the feel of John McLaughlin’s “Pacific Express.” Roney is entirely absent from the closer, “Revive,” a nearly three-minute unaccompanied piece by Bobby Ward, the revered Boston drummer who was pals with Tony Williams (and is heard on three of the album’s eight tracks). It’s a solo in which there is never a dull moment, which might also be said about all of Home. ~  By Philip Booth https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/wallace-roney-home/

R.I.P.
Born: 25-05-1960
Died: 31-03-2020

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