★★★★★
Venerable New Orleans favourites such as Panama and Tiger Rag have been played so much over the years, often indifferently, that you might think they'd been done to death. Well, here comes trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, for many years right-hand man to Wynton Marsalis, to prove otherwise. With his broad, warm tone and a hand-picked band, he recasts 15 of them and brings them back to life. Nothing radical, just a touch here and a trim there. It's the musicianship that does the trick...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-01-12
★★★★★
Versatility is an important part of a well-developed artistic soul. The arts provide a wide range of outlets of expression that can be nurtured and grown into their finest results. Music could very well be a reason to believe in the extraordinary, and jazz musicians are no exception; they might even be a norm. It is the dream of every artist to create freely, as improvised notes are gathered in an instrument and then exposed to the world at a moment's notice...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-09-07
★★★★★
Straight out of the Wynton Marsalis school of jazz, trombone man Wycliffe Gordon cut his teeth with the ubiquitous trumpeter, yet unlike many from the Marsalis clan, Gordon has shown over the past few years that his musical personality takes in far more far reaching influences than the retro styled swing that Marsalis chooses as his muse. Influenced by a wide lineage of jazz trombonists from Dickey Wells to J.J...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
The Best of the Best. Wynton Marsalis, like Miles Davis and Art Blakey, has been responsible for presenting the jazz world with a legion of fully-formed and competent talent. Those who have been through Wynton's School of the road include Marcus Roberts, the late Kenny Kirkland, Wessell "Warmdaddy" Anderson, Reginald Veal just to name a few. But in this critics meager opinion Wycliffe Gordon is the most talented of this rarified group...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Wycliffe Gordon is one of the busiest jazz trombone players in the business today. He has traveled the world performing with the Wynton Marsalis Septet and Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, under his own name and as a duo with Jay Leonhart. As an educator he has performed and taught master classes at various schools. All About Jazz: You started trombone at age 12. Did you study music formally? Wycliffe Gordon: I started trombone at age 12 but I started piano lessons at age 11...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Track Listing: Shhh!!(The Band Is Trying To Play); Yaht Doo Daht Ditt; Sweet Spot; Blues For Alice's Freight Train; Speak Low; The Breaks; Blooz Hymn; Just Friends; Stars Fell on Alabama; Mister P.C.; Cruise Blues; Hush Yo' Mouf!!. Personnel: Wycliffe Gordon: trombone & vocal (1,12); Stacy Dillard: tenor and soprano saxophone;Johnny O'Neal: piano; Reginald Veal: bass; Herlin Riley: drums...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Track Listing: Shhh!!(The Band Is Trying To Play); Yaht Doo Daht Ditt; Sweet Spot; Blues For Alice's FreightTrain; Speak Low; The Breaks; Blooz Hymn; Just Friends; Stars Fell on Alabama; Mister P.C.;Cruise Blues; Hush Yo' Mouf!!. Personnel: Wycliffe Gordon: trombone & vocal; Stacy Dillard: tenor and soprano sax; Johnny O'Neal:piano; Reginald Veal: bass; Herlin Riley: drums...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Track Listing: Shhh!! (The Band Is Trying To Play); Yaht Doo Daht Ditt; Sweet Spot; Blues For Alice's FreightTrain; Speak Low; The Breaks; Blooz Hymn; Just Friends; Stars Fell on Alabama; Mister P.C.;Cruise Blues; Hush Yo' Mouf!!. Personnel: Wycliffe Gordon: trombone, vocals; Stacy Dillard: tenor and soprano saxophone; JohnnyO'Neal: piano; Reginald Veal: bass; Herlin Riley: drums...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Track Listing: Shhh!!! (The Band Is Trying to Play); Yaht Doo Daht Ditt; Sweet Spot; Blues for Alice's Freight Train; Speak Low; Breaks; Blooz Hymn; Just Friends; Stars Fell on Alabama; Mister P.C.; Cruise Blues; Hush Yo' Mouf!! Personnel: Wycliffe Gordon: vocals, trombone; Stacy Dillard: saxophone; Johnny O'Neal: piano; ReginaldVeal: bass; Herlin Riley: drums...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
Loading...
