Jazz - Wynton Marsailis Review/Lincoln Centre Jazz - 02/04/11 03:30 AM
Concert was awesome. Wonderful Musicality. Some amazing solos.
All compositions and arrangements were by the members of the orchestra. The Monk was very good. The pianist was awesome.
Chris Crenshaw, trombone is going places.
NOTE: Everyone read charts. That needs work, they fluttered to the floor way too much. Oh and the funny moment, which in all the years with bones, the aforementioned Chris got the 9th position on the trombone, so the slide was about 3 feet away.
The drummer was facing us, we were dead centre upper balcony 4 rows back. But he was looking at right angles. He almost never looked forward, just right. Then I saw him turn the page. Reading a chart. Now I've never seen that in jazz.
What was striking I don't think the actual music has 'legs'. Will it be played 30 years from now? Will their arrangements endure. I don't know, but I wouldn't bet a lot of cash on it. They showed off virtuosity. The showed great ability. But a composition needs a signature. Like great classical music you hear the riff, and say, yup. Or some jazz tunes like Satin Doll.
Wadda I know.
I had fun, great train trip, nice hotel, good food, and some 'shopping', (shudder).
Worth the 80 bucks a ticket? Yes, those dudes were tight. Never heard a wrong note. That from a guy who drops his keys on the floor and hears nothing, but for a deaf guy it was still loud enough, and I got most of it.
The future of music is experimentation and extrapolation. Things move on. The music of the 15th century had an influence, but evolution brought about many things, and will continue to do so.
That said I don't suggest you pay 80 bucks a ticket to a performance of works by John Cage. The silence is deafening at times.
All compositions and arrangements were by the members of the orchestra. The Monk was very good. The pianist was awesome.
Chris Crenshaw, trombone is going places.
NOTE: Everyone read charts. That needs work, they fluttered to the floor way too much. Oh and the funny moment, which in all the years with bones, the aforementioned Chris got the 9th position on the trombone, so the slide was about 3 feet away.
The drummer was facing us, we were dead centre upper balcony 4 rows back. But he was looking at right angles. He almost never looked forward, just right. Then I saw him turn the page. Reading a chart. Now I've never seen that in jazz.
What was striking I don't think the actual music has 'legs'. Will it be played 30 years from now? Will their arrangements endure. I don't know, but I wouldn't bet a lot of cash on it. They showed off virtuosity. The showed great ability. But a composition needs a signature. Like great classical music you hear the riff, and say, yup. Or some jazz tunes like Satin Doll.
Wadda I know.
I had fun, great train trip, nice hotel, good food, and some 'shopping', (shudder).
Worth the 80 bucks a ticket? Yes, those dudes were tight. Never heard a wrong note. That from a guy who drops his keys on the floor and hears nothing, but for a deaf guy it was still loud enough, and I got most of it.
The future of music is experimentation and extrapolation. Things move on. The music of the 15th century had an influence, but evolution brought about many things, and will continue to do so.
That said I don't suggest you pay 80 bucks a ticket to a performance of works by John Cage. The silence is deafening at times.