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Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. I

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Released
  
1987

Label
  
Columbia

Producer
  
Steven Epstein

Length
  
62:45

Release date
  
7 July 1987

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
May 29–30, 1986 and September 24–25, 1986

Studio
  
RCA Studio A, New York City

Carnaval (1987)
  
Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. 1 (1987)

Artists
  
Wynton Marsalis, The Wynton Marsalis Quintet

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Similar
  
Wynton Marsalis albums, Jazz albums

Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. 1 is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that was released in 1987. It won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group in 1988.

Contents

Reception

The album reached peak positions of number 153 on the Billboard 200 and number 2 on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart. Scott Yanow at AllMusic gave the album four stars and said, "Marsalis' tone is quite beautiful on the well-balanced set; even the ballads have their unpredictable moments." The Penguin Guide to Jazz gave the album three and a half stars and said, "[The album] was wonderfully judged, a programme of pieces that distanced him from the modernists without ever consigning him to the ranks of the Old Believers. Even after more than a decade, Marsalis Standard Time retains its burnish and class."

In Leonard Feather's four-star review, published in The Los Angeles Times shortly after the album's release, any reservations expressed are confined to the album's liner notes.

Marsalis twists the time around on "April in Paris," tries a little tenderness on "Goodbye," turns bassist Bob Hurst loose on "A Foggy Day" and presents his pianist Marcus Roberts, who senses the beauty of the melody on "Memories of You." Except for two Marsalis originals (a personalized blues and a delicate, muted "In the Afterglow") the trumpeter's mature approach to old pop songs is the focus. Incredibly, the verbose notes by Stanley Crouch manage to plow through some 2,000 words without once mentioning George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Juan Tizol, Ray Noble, Eubie Blake or Hoagy Carmichael. These men merely composed the melodies without which there would have been no standard time.

The album was awarded a Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group, in 1988.

Personnel

  • Wynton Marsalis – trumpet
  • Marcus Roberts – piano
  • Robert Leslie Hurst III – double bass
  • Jeff "Tain" Watts – drums
  • Songs

    1Caravan8:20
    2April in Paris5:05
    3Cherokee2:26

    References

    Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. I Wikipedia