★★★★★
Delfeayo Marsalis struts his trombonist-arranger chops while paying tribute to Duke Ellington's 1957 tribute to William Shakespeare, Such Sweet Thunder, joined by a rotating cast including his saxophonist brother Branford and piano standout Mulgrew Miller. It's a daring project, which at least one prominent figure is already on record politely objecting to. Credit Marsalis for printing Gunther Schuller's misgivings in the album's liner notes...
- www.jazztimes.com
2011-04-25
★★★★★
Track Listing: Such Sweet Thunder; Sonnet for Sister Kate; Sonnet to Hank Cinq; Half the Fun; Up & Down, Up & Down; Madness in Great Ones; Star-Crossed Lovers; Sonnet in Search of A Moor; The Telecasters; Sonnet for Caesar; Lady Mac; Circle of Fourths...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2011-01-17
★★★★★
This is as much an Elvin Jones album as a Delfeayo Marsalis session, which is a testament to the trombonist's genius as a producer. A great producer knows the potential of the project at hand and allows it to be realized without egos getting in the way. Though Marsalis shares his production credit here with older brother Branford, the basic idea of taking advantage of the dwindling opportunity to record with one of the greatest drummers in jazz history was all his...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
"The time is right, says Delfeayo Marsalis, third youngest of the renowned and prodigious jazz family from New Orleans, speaking with confidence. "There aren't that many bands out there playing like my band. ... It's my time. Marsalis has been on the jazz scene for a long time. He may have more notoriety due to his very successful tenure as a record producer. But he's been out there playing the trombone in various aggregations including a notable tenure with drumming icon Elvin Jones...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Delfeayo Marsalis Minions Dominion Troubador Jass 2006 What does the term "mainstream" mean to you? In jazz, the label is applied to music which has time-tested, codified rhythm and structure. After that, it can get more mainstream if the melody and harmony are easily understood. This is not a value judgment about good or bad music, but rather a way of placing the music within a framework of expectation...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Slide trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis is that rare thing-a record producer who is also a first-class player and composer. Since the mid-'80s, Berklee grad Marsalis has over the course of some 60 recordings (including brothers Wynton and Branford as well as Courtney Pine) distinguished himself as one of the more gifted producers of jazz today...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
The fabled Marsalis technical dexterity is on full display here, as is the characteristic meld of pop-culture accessibility and high-art aspiration ("Brer Rabbit" was the closing theme of the ABC miniseries Moon Over Miami; "Lost in the Crescent," a reprise of Marsalis' earlier "The Beautyful Ones," is an antebellum fable set to music that derives from influences as varied as Brahms' "Symphony No. 3" and Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine")...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Minions Dominion is the third album by trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis, recorded in early 2002 and finally out almost five years later. A lot of things happened during that span; Delfeayo's mentor and the set's drummer, Elvin Jones, passed on, and Katrina devastated Marsalis's hometown, incidentally delaying this release another year as a minor footnote...
- www.jazzreview.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Track Listing: Brer Rabbit; Lone Warrior; If You Only Knew; Minions Dominion; Just Squeeze Me; Weaver of Dreams; Lost in the Crescent. Personnel: Delfeayo Marsalis: trombone; Branford Marsalis: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone; Donald Harrison: alto saxophone; Mulgrew Miller, Sergio Salvatore: piano; Robert Hurst III, Edwin Livingston, Eric Revis: bass; Elvin Jones: drums...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
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