Wynton Marsalis – The London Concert (2000) SACD ISO

Wynton Marsalis – The London Concert (2000)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:48:33 minutes | 2,3 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Sony Classical SS 57497

This should not be thought of as a crossover disc by a jazz artist trying his hand at classical music. It is a classical disc by a well-educated and highly talented musician. Although Marsalis is known as a jazz musician and educator, the original release of the first four concertos here was recorded when he was just 20 and relatively new to the jazz world as well. This “expanded edition” of the original CBS release of the Haydn, Mozart, Fasch, and Hummel works adds concertos from two other releases. Throughout these works, he, Leppard, and the English Chamber Orchestra are consistently clean and precise. They also are careful not to add overly affected expression to the music, although these are not period instruments nor are they using period performance practice, as Marsalis points out in the accompanying notes. Marsalis has a beautiful, smooth tone that is clear, but not sharply brilliant, so it blends wonderfully with the strings. The Hummel is especially attractive, where Marsalis plays as if he were singing an aria in the Andante, and the Rondo at times takes on the humor of a Gilbert and Sullivan patter song. The first of the additional concertos, a brief one by Michael Haydn, really tests Marsalis’ abilities. He maintains his tone and phrasing even as he tackles the virtuoso ornamentation and accurately reaches the extreme high notes. Marsalis recorded both solo parts of the Vivaldi concerto, so again, there is consistency in its execution. The sound quality is excellent, becoming brighter as it moves into the bonus tracks. It’s a good way to get the greatest hits of the trumpet concerto repertoire, performed with great skill by Marsalis.

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Wynton Marsalis – Big Band Holidays III (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Wynton Marsalis – Big Band Holidays III (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 26:40 minutes | 545 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Engine Records

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Blue Engine Records celebrates the most wonderful time of the year with the release of Big Band Holidays, a compilation of holiday classics performed live by the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Special guests on Big Band Holidays are some of today’s commanding new voices in jazz: René Marie, Gregory Porter and Cécile McLorin Salvant.

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Wynton Marsalis – Black Codes (From The Underground) (1985/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wynton Marsalis – Black Codes (From The Underground) (1985/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:12 minutes | 538 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

One of the hardest swinging and best-loved of his 1980s recordings wraps listeners in the astonishing group sound that defined Wynton Marsalis. Firey performances by the players jazz writers dubbed “The Young Lions”: saxophonist Branford Marsalis, the “Doctone” – pianist Kenny Kirkland, the “Net Man” – bassist Charnett Moffett, drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts, and of course Wynton himself on trumpet.

Grammy Winner for “Best Jazz Instrumental Performance – Group.”

As the cover tells you, it all comes down to knowing and wanting to know, to study and experience, to rebellion against the bondage of ignorance. And no major art can subsist on luck or on natural talent that is never put to the head-slapping test of discipline. So there is never a point at which learning and knowing don’t come together for the best expression of talent. The objective is mastery, which is always born of sophistication. In jazz, mastery has to do with an unavoidable velocity because the improvisor must work in a context where the moment is all. Where the recipe for shape, continuity, and form has to be conceived, mixed, cooked, and served immediately. As with all art, the more you know, the more you can do. And when everything is focused by integrity, you hear the emotion of idealism boiling over the top, spanning moods from the bristling to the frail tenderness of a vulnerable lover’s whisper. This recording has that scope of passion, and it is delivered with a gutbucket high-mindedness as intriguing as it is exciting, as infectious as it is soothing.

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The Philadelphia Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru & Wynton Marsalis – Blues Symphony (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Philadelphia Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru & Wynton Marsalis – Blues Symphony (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:04 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Engine Records

The blues is one of America’s greatest cultural inventions—and now, it provides the backbone for one of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Wynton Marsalis’s most innovative and colossal works. In the hands of the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of celebrated conductor Cristian Măcelaru, Blues Symphony (Marsalis’s second symphony) takes the 12-bar blues and explodes it into a lyrical, kaleidoscopic history of American music.

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Wynton Marsalis – He and She (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wynton Marsalis – He and She (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:15 minutes | 814 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Engine Records

As the title to Wynton’s fifth Blue Note release indicates, He and She is about that eternally compelling and most elemental of subjects: the relationship between a man and a woman. The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, trumpeter, and band leader, however, hasn’t merely crafted a love story, but a life story — a bittersweet rumination about the evanescence of life as well as the elusiveness of romance. Time is very much at the heart of He and She: the swift passage of time over the course of one’s life, the mood-altering shifts of time within the duration of a song. It’s an ambitious effort, combining spoken word and music, and Marsalis has given his quintet some formidable charts. The album is tempered with dashes of humor and plenty of swing. There’s ease and elegance and more than a little wisdom in these grooves.

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Wynton Marsalis – Unforgivable Blackness – The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wynton Marsalis – Unforgivable Blackness – The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:11 minutes | 559 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Engine Records

Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis’ soundtrack to Ken Burns’ documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson is a compelling and rootsy mix of blues and swing. Having worked with Burns on the PBS “Jazz” series, Marsalis’ Unforgivable Blackness soundtrack seems like a natural progression of a fruitful partnership. Not dissimilar to such past Marsalis projects as the Jelly Roll Morton album Mr. Jelly Lord, the album features Marsalis in various small-group settings along with such longtime Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra regulars as drummer Herlin Riley, pianist Eric Lewis, saxophonist Wessell Anderson, bassist Reginald Veal, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, and others, including guitarist Doug Wamble, who adds his unique blend of old-time blues, folk, and jazz to Marsalis’ own signature updating of ’20s and ’30s jazz. Although four previously released tracks appear here, two off Standard Time, Vol. 6: Mr. Jelly Lord and two from Marsalis’ Reeltime, the majority of the album is newly recorded and all of it sounds of a piece. Ironically, Marsalis’ deepest musical influence and aesthetic nemesis, trumpeter Miles Davis, also recorded an album for a film about the troubled boxing champ Johnson, 1970’s fusion classic Tribute to Jack Johnson. However, where Davis’ album seemed to reflect the counterculture and Black Power movements of the time, Marsalis is more traditionally cinematic in his approach, with each track evoking the pride, urbanity, strength, and tragedy of the legendary Johnson.

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Wynton Marsalis – The Magic Hour (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wynton Marsalis – The Magic Hour (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:26 minutes | 656 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Engine Records

The Magic Hour is Marsalis’ first jazz ensemble studio recording since 1999′s Marciac Suite. His last album was All Rise, an extended composition for big band, gospel choir and symphony orchestra. “All Rise was such a huge piece involving over two hundred people. I wanted to produce my next recording with a smaller group,” says the trumpeter, who settled into Right Track Studios in New York for two days last June to record the new album. “I wanted to restate my basic love of jazz music in a quartet format,” says Marsalis.

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Wynton Marsalis – Live at the House of Tribes (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wynton Marsalis – Live at the House of Tribes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:07:01 minutes | 776 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Engine Records

This hard swinging live recording from New York City’s intimate “House of Tribes” catures the jubilation, spontaneity and surprise of that late night jam session you heard about the day after you made a mistake and went home too early.

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Wynton Marsalis – From the Plantation to the Penitentiary (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Wynton Marsalis – From the Plantation to the Penitentiary (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:28 minutes | 651 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Engine Records

By turns soothing, urgent, playful, and angry, From the Plantation to the Penitentiary distills Marsalis’ recent observations on our modern American way of life as he’s traveled the nation as a performer, teacher, and private citizen. Through the sultry alto of 21-year old singer Jennifer Sanon, he gives voice to the “tattered ragmen” of America in Find Me, rebukes our misogynistic entertainment industry- “I ain’t no bitch and I ain’t your ho”- in The Return of Romance, and denounces the uncontrolled financial exploitation of modern America in which “there’s never enough” in the frantic Super Capitalism. The most striking track on the album is Where Y’all At?, a rare spoken-word vocal performance by Marsalis, in which he demands to know what’s happened to all the responsible leaders in America- Where y’all at?

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Wynton Marsalis – Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Wynton Marsalis – Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:42 minutes | 821 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Engine Records

Recorded in the 1920s, Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Hot Sevens sides are still hailed as some of the greatest and most influential jazz sessions ever captured; musicians obsess over their warmth, wit, and joy to this day. A new live recording by Wynton Marsalis — another acclaimed New Orleans trumpeter— reimagines classics from those sessions like “Basin Street Blues,” “St. James Infirmary,” and “Heebie Jeebies” for a whole new generation of audiences.

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Wynton Marsalis – The Jungle (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Wynton Marsalis – The Jungle (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:17 minutes | 829 MB | Genre: Jazz, Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Engine Records

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO), comprising 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988 and spends over a third of the year on tour across the world. Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s programming, this remarkably versatile orchestra performs and leads educational events in New York, across the U.S. and around the globe; in concert halls; dance venues; jazz clubs; public parks; and with symphony orchestras; ballet troupes; local students; and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists. Under Music Director Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, and current and former Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Ted Nash, Victor Goines, Sherman Irby, Chris Crenshaw, and Carlos Henriquez.

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis – The Music of Wayne Shorter (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis - The Music of Wayne Shorter (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis – The Music of Wayne Shorter (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:27:43 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Engine Records

‘He’s at the highest level of our music you can t get any higher than him.’ So says Wynton Marsalis of the legendary saxophonist, composer, and band leader Wayne Shorter. With a legendary career spanning over 60 years, the 11-time GRAMMY award winner (including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy) has released countless classic records and amassed a canon of lyrical, introspective music that stands up to the greatest jazz composers. In 2015, the formidable 81-year-old joined the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis onstage for three unforgettable nights; the result is The Music of Wayne Shorter, out Jan. 31 on CD and digital formats. For the record, JLCO members arranged beautiful, intricate versions of some of his most classic songs, including ‘Armageddon’ (from 1964 s Night Dreamer), ‘Endangered Species’ (from 1985 s Atlantis), and a very tender, Marsalis-penned take on ‘Teru’ (from 1966 s Adam s Apple). From Art Blakey to Miles Davis, from Weather Report to his own fabled Quartet, Shorter has done perhaps more than anyone to expand the known universe of jazz. Now, The Music of Wayne Shorter takes Shorter to places he s never been before, giving his beloved compositions and hauntingly lush saxophone sound the big band backdrop they ve long deserved. As Marsalis says, ‘Everybody strives to have a personal sound: his sound is definitive’
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis – The Fifties: A Prism (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis - The Fifties: A Prism (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis – The Fifties: A Prism (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:35 minutes | 798 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Engine Records

All jazz is modern,” says Wynton Marsalis—and we owe the 1950s for that. The momentous decade became the crucible in which modern jazz was formed, as styles like modal, hard bop, third stream, and more melted together and artists like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Ornette Coleman reached the height of their powers. Now, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombonist Chris Crenshaw has taken inspiration from the era to create The Fifties: A Prism, the newest Blue Engine album.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis – Black, Brown and Beige (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis - Black, Brown and Beige (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis – Black, Brown and Beige (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:16 minutes | 954 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Engine Records

Blue Engine Records, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s in-house recording label, will release a present-day recording of Duke Ellington’s groundbreaking masterpiece Black, Brown and Beige by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Captured during a live, Rose Theater performance in 2018, Black, Brown and Beige is Wynton Marsalis’s first recording of the work and Blue Engine’s first release dedicated entirely to Ellington. Black, Brown and Beige will be available exclusively on all digital platforms on March 6, 2020.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis – A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis - A Swingin' Sesame Street Celebration (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis – A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:19 minutes | 883 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Engine Records

Sesame Street comes to Jazz at Lincoln Center for a swinging celebration of the show’s 50th anniversary. See some of your favorite feathered and furry friends like Big Bird and Elmo sing classic Sesame Street songs alongside the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
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