Released May 1993 Length 1:19:02 Release date May 1993 Genre Jazz | Recorded September 23, 1991 Artist Branford Marsalis Label COLUMBIA | |
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Bloomington
(1993) Buckshot LeFonque
(1994) Producers George Butler, Delfeayo Marsalis Similar Creation, I Heard You Twice the First T, Requiem, Eternal, Music Evolution | ||
Bloomington is a jazz album by Branford Marsalis, featuring the trio that had recorded his studio album The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. It peaked at number 9 on the Top Jazz Albums chart.
Contents
In his AllMusic review, Scott Yanow calls the album "very long-winded and rather dull" and says of Marsalis that he "seems content to play the part of a chameleon, doing his impressions of late-period Coltrane, Sonny Rollins and (when he switches to soprano) Ornette Coleman." The LA Times praised the recording, saying "the telling of what he finds is revealing and beautiful in ways only the best improvisational music can be." Entertainment Weekly called the recording "a career-positioning statement in matter-of-fact musical terms" and "insular music for the hard-bop elite."
Track listing
All tracks written by Branford Marsalis, except where indicated.
Personnel
Songs
1Xavier's Lair15:13
2Everything Happens To Me7:54
3The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born19:02