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Wynton Marsalis: From the Plantation to the Penitentiary
Blue Note/Virgin Records; Rs. 445 (CD)
Recent jazz albums don’t often get to the shelves of music stores in India, so the appearance here of this 2007 CD is news in itself. Of course, the fact that it won a Pulitzer Prize must have helped. Wynton Marsalis is a brilliant trumpeter with a beautiful tone, although controversial for his devotion to early jazz, the music of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington in particular.
The album attempts to trace the history of the African-American people through music. Marsalis is aided by Walter Blanding on tenor and soprano saxophones, Dan Nimmer on piano, Carlos Henriquez on bass, Ali Jackson Jr. on drums and the voice of Jennifer Sanon. The use of vocals, integral to telling the story, again harks back to the roots of jazz, when the human voice was a more important part of the music than it is now. Helpfully, the liner notes of the album contain the lyrics of all the pieces in full.
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