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Contemporary Jazz (Branford Marsalis album)

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Released
  
August 2000

Length
  
1:13:50

Release date
  
15 August 2000

Recorded
  
December 1999

Label
  
Genre
  
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Contemporary Jazz(2000)
  
Footsteps of Our Fathers(2002)

Producers
  
Branford Marsalis, Rob "Wacko!" Hunter

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Similar
  
Branford Marsalis albums, Jazz albums

Contemporary Jazz is a jazz album by the Branford Marsalis Quartet, featuring Branford Marsalis, Eric Revis, Jeff "Tain" Watts, and Joey Calderazzo which was recorded on December 1–4, 1999 at Bearsville Sound Studios in New York, New York.

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Reception

The album received the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group in 2000 and reached Number 12 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.

In his AllMusic review, David R. Adler calls the album "a knockout," saying the quartet "deftly [executes] a dizzying series of tempo shifts and subtle cues, all seamlessly worked into a fabric of extended, burning improvisation." Writing in JazzTimes, Willard Jenkins says that Marsalis "shows clear evidence that he's far from satisfied in his quest for excellence on his horns and with his composer's pen. Writing with an exceptional sense of rhythm in particular, Marsalis churns out an eight-chapter gem…" The BBC's ClassicalMusic.com called the album "packed with hard-driving, punchy, turn-on-a-dime quartet music, vigorously interactive and razor-sharp, yet pleasingly informal…hard-swinging, occasionally volcanic performances from a quartet at the peak of its powers."

Track listing

All tracks written by Branford Marsalis, except where indicated.

Personnel

  • Branford Marsalis – Saxophones
  • Eric Revis, bass
  • Jeff "Tain" Watts, drums
  • Joey Calderazzo, piano
  • Songs

    1In the Crease6:50
    2Requiem10:20
    3Elysium16:03

    References

    Contemporary Jazz (Branford Marsalis album) Wikipedia


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