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Branford Marsalis: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

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Label: Sony Music
Released: 1991.10.30
Time:
 69:38
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Delfeayo Marsalis
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.branfordmarsalis.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Roused About (Robert Hurst) - 8:08
[2] The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Branford Marsalis) - 13:42
[3] Xavier's Lair (Branford Marsalis) - 8:54
[4] Cain & Abel (Branford Marsalis) - 7:34
[5] Citizen Tain (Branford Marsalis) - 8:04
[6] Gilligan's Isle (Branford Marsalis) - 10:45
[7] Dewey Baby (Branford Marsalis) - 9:08
[8] Beat's Remark" (Robert Hurst) - 12:47

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Branford Marsalis - Saxophones
Jeff "Tain" Watts - Drums
Robert Hurst - Bass

Wynton Marsalis - Trumpet on [4]
Courtney Pine - Tenor Saxophone on [7]

Delfeayo Marsalis - Producer, Liner Notes
Dr. George Butler - Executive Producer
Patrick Smith - Engineer, Liner Notes, Mixing
Gordon Davies - Assistant Engineer
Jose Fernandez - Assistant Engineer
Aidan McGovern - Assistant Engineer
Keith Risinger - Mixing
Meean-Cheem Ustoo - Editing
Mark Wilder - Editing, Mastering
Nancy Danahy - Design Assistant
Tim Geelan - Editor-In-Chief
Arnold Levine - Art Direction
Chip Simons - Photography

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Putting a saxophonist of Marsalis' caliber in a recording studio with just bass and drums—no piano—is a little like turning Michael Jordan loose in a schoolyard with two Bulls teammates and saying, show us what you can do, men, have a blast, go crazy.

Subtracting the piano opens up lanes for the soloist. With fewer harmonic constraints, there's more room to invent, more time to spin and soar—and to fall flat on your face if you lack stamina or imagination.

Marsalis lacks neither. On soprano as well as on tenor, his tone is rich and round, his phrasing and rhythm beautifully fluid. Bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Jeff Watts not only stay with him they set moods, challenge him and solo bracingly themselves.

At times in these ambitious excursions (the eight cuts last about eight to 14 minutes each) you wonder if Marsalis—a supple rather than an explosive improviser—has run out of gas. But he quickly takes off again and never resorts to patterns or the handy escape valve of shrieking, whistling and other kinds of rampaging in the overtones above the horn's normal range. The same can't quite be said for tenor saxophonist Courtney Pine, the leadoff soloist in "Dewey Baby," one of two guest spots on the album.

The other guest, in "Cain and Abel," is Branford's younger brother Wynton. Despite the title it's a total romp, the trumpeter and the saxophonist, on tenor, entwining, teasing, giving and going like a musical Michael and Magic.

Copyright © 2015 Time



A few years ago, skeptics were wondering if sax-playing Branford Marsalis was prone to sell out, since he was touring with Sting. Perhaps The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is his answer (and also conceivably his answer to anyone claiming he’ll be selling out when he starts his new gig as Doc Severinsen’s successor on The Tonight Show this spring). It’s a very long and uncompromising trio recital in which Marsalis pays homage to John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Sonny Rollins, while demonstrating his own stunning command of tenor and soprano sax. Indeed, if anything the album is too pure: The strain of improvising with only the spartan sound of bass and drums for support ultimately gets wearying. Even the prototypical Rollins softened his trio work by using standard melodies. The highlight of Beautyful, not surprisingly, is a stunning, old-fashioned battle of the tenors, ”Dewey Baby,” with a guest appearance by Courtney Pine. Marsalis is almost always an imposing improviser, but on the tenor duel, intellectualism gives way to pure visceral excitement.

Gary Giddins, January 17 1992
Copyright © 2015 Entertainment Weekly



This set is one of Branford Marsalis' strongest of the 1990s. Marsalis really stretches out on eight numbers including six of his originals (the other two songs are by bassist Bob Hurst). There is one guest appearance apiece from brother-trumpeter Wynton and tenor saxophonist Courtney Pine but otherwise Branford is accompanied only by Hurst and drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts. His playing is often reminiscent in style (but not really sound) of John Coltrane, he is more concise and disciplined than in some of his early-'90s concert appearances and Marsalis is at his most explorative on this inventive blowing session.

Scott Yanow - All Music Guide



The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is a jazz album by Branford Marsalis, leading a trio with Jeff "Tain" Watts and Robert Hurst and with guest appearances from Wynton Marsalis and Courtney Pine. It was recorded May 16-18, 1991 at CTS Studio A, Wembly, England, and June 24, 1991 at RCA Studio B in New York, New York. It peaked at number 3 on the Top Jazz Albums chart. Calling it "one of Branford Marsalis' strongest of the 1990s," Scott Yanow notes in his AllMusic review, "His playing is often reminiscent in style (but not really sound) of John Coltrane, he is more concise and disciplined than in some of his early-'90s concert appearances and [h3] is at his most explorative on this inventive blowing session." Other reviewers concurred. People Magazine called Marsalis's tone "rich and round… his phrasing and rhythm beautifully fluid." Entertainment Weekly gave a slightly more nuanced review, calling the recording "a very long and uncompromising trio recital in which Marsalis [demonstrates] his own stunning command of tenor and soprano sax. Indeed, if anything the album is too pure: The strain of improvising with only the spartan sound of bass and drums for support ultimately gets wearying…"

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