Branford Marsalis, Eric Jacobsen & Virginia Symphony Orchestra – Sound of the Sun (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:27 minutes | 802 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bright Shiny Things
The soulful sounds of the saxophone played by multi-GRAMMY-award-winning Branford Marsalis pairs perfectly with the evocative works of British composer Sally Beamish and Mahler. Led by Eric Jacobsen with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, this album delivers the songful melancholy of the Mahler songs, played by Marsalis, combined with the freneticism and imagery of Sally Beamish’s two rarely heard works, brought to a center stage.
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Branford Marsalis, Joby Burgess, Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexey Bogorad – Gabriel Prokofiev: Saxophone Concerto, Bass Drum Concerto (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:33 minutes | 999 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Signum Records
In his new Saxophone Concerto, Gabriel Prokofiev explores a side of classical music usually seen as forbidden by modern contemporary composers: melody. This aspect was incorporated at the request of the soloist, Branford Marsalis, allowing Prokofiev to revisit characteristics of the classical tradition not usually heard in contemporary music, giving the saxophone an open canvas.
Prokofiev’s Bass Drum Concerto shows the versatility of the instrument, despite only being used in a very basic fashion in classical music as a whole. Prokofiev experiments with how the bass drum is struck, where it is struck, and what it is struck with throughout the piece, producing a variety of sounds, colours and textures.
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Branford Marsalis – In My Solitude (Live At Grace Cathedral) (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:38 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Solo live performance is probably the ultimate challenge for most jazz musicians–improvisation is a high-wire act where good bandmates function as a net. There are no off nights when you play solo—and if you do run out of ideas, you stop or, worse, coast. The first solo effort in a long and storied career of Branford Marsalis, In My Solitude finds the saxophonist (on tenor, alto, or soprano) up to the challenge; he mixes standards, originals, improvisations, and highbrow classical, closing with the theme song to The Carol Burnett Show. All of it resonates elegantly in this landmark setting.
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Branford Marsalis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Music from the Netflix Film) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:29 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Soundtrack
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is the new Netflix film, out December 18, that stars Viola Davis as blues icon Ma Rainey and the late Chadwick Boseman in his final on-screen performance. Today, the soundtrack, featuring original music from Branford Marsalis, has been announced; it’s also out on December 18 (via Milan Records).
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