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| | Metamorphosen | | | Music Artist : | | Branford Marsalis Quartet | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Marsalis Music | | Release Date : | | 2009-03-17 | | Store Price : | | $16.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. The Return Of The Jitney Man
2. The Blossom Of Parting
3. Jabberwocky
4. Abe Vigoda
5. Rhythm-a-ning
6. Sphere
7. The Last Goodbye
8. And Then, He Was Gone
9. Samo
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Thumbs Down
Submitted on: 2009-11-18 |
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| I like everything I have heard from Branford Marsalis in the past but can't get anything out of this current release. As I listened, not for the first time, the music started to remind me of that used by a snake charmer. I realize these are great musicians but this release is beyond me. |
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 Could be this year's best jazz release
Submitted on: 2009-07-10 |
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| Another great release from the quartet...they still sound fresh and exciting and the album is full of great compositions. There are a couple of angular medlodic tunes that don't do much for me, except "A Blossom of Parting". This tune builds and builds with tension until it finally peaks and is resolved by a wonderful piano ending. This gives the tune the sigh of relief it needed after all the built up tension - I love it when tunes end the way this one does - (i.e. Exit Music (for a film) performed by Brad Mehldau's Trio at the Village Vanguard Vol. 3). The rest of the tunes are full of spontaneity and excitement that keep the listener on edge. |
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 Cutting-edge jazz
Submitted on: 2009-06-25 |
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| The Branford Marsalis Quartet has been leading way in contemporary jazz for many years, and the group has benefited from that time together. They are together, rock-solid, on this recording, and doing many new things, intricate rhythms, changes, and unexpected things. This is not for the casual listener or "smooth jazz" fan, but if you want to engage your brain and be taken to new places, this is a very good album, from a very good small group of musicians, saying very interesting things. |
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Well Balanced
Submitted on: 2009-06-15 |
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A much more elaborate record compared to Braggtown.
You feel the intensity of Jack Baker and quitness and exoticism of Eternal listening to Metamorphosen. It is a very well balanced record and perhaps the band's most mature record yet. |
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One of the greatest jazz records of all time
Submitted on: 2009-04-06 |
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| After saying so often that jazz may be dead, a recording that shows that this music is alive comes along. The opening tune is complex for the brain, and wide open for the rest of the body to react to. The opening reminds me of the opening of "A" train, in spirit, only with compositional ideas that didn't exist when Billy Strayhorn penned that classic. The development section (the way this quartet develops thematic idea has more in common with Beethoven than Chet Baker, so I see many of the tunes they play is a simplified 3 part Sonata form) is invigorating. The second tune is jazz in instrumentation, but could easily be sung as leider (or an aria) by a vocal tenor. It is that beautiful. "Jabberwocky" is just cool. Abe Vigoda (why this title?, without transcription, I'm guessing that the 12 tone row used to compose this atonal beauty has A-B-E in it somewhere,but I could be way off, on all of that speculation). Abe Vigoda is a beautiful tune from another world. Monk and a Monkish "Sphere, bring thye disc back to earth. The disc closes out with "Samo". The polyrhytmic tune seems to have a split aural focal point that leaves me thinking that I will hear it from a different part of my brain each time I hear it. This tune, is spiritual in the way my favorite record First Meditations, by Trane has been on repeated listening. Metamorphosen is a fabulous record of a brilliant quartet. |
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