The Marciac Suite | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 2000 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Delfeayo Marsalis | |||
Wynton Marsalis chronology | ||||
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The Marciac Suite is an album by the American musician Wynton Marsalis, released in 2000.[1][2] He is credited with his Septet.[3] Marsalis recorded the music for the annual Jazz in Marciac festival.[4] The album was originally included as a bonus disc with the Swinging into the 21st series, released in 1999.[5]
The album was produced by Delfeayo Marsalis.[6] Every song title references Marciac, France.[7] "Guy Lafitte" is a tribute to the French saxophonist.[8] "Jean-Louis Is Everywhere" is about the festival's organizer.[9] Wessell Anderson played alto saxophone; Herlin Riley played drums.[10][11] Cyrus Chestnut contributed on piano.[12]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [10] |
Calgary Herald | [13] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD | [14] |
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz | [15] |
The Boston Globe called the album "a more natural and less historically self-conscious approach to improvising on Marsalis's part."[16] The New York Times wrote that it "has gorgeous compositional ideas and thick, glowing harmonies."[17] The San Diego Union-Tribune concluded that "no single part stands out from the others, but the entire composition captures the warmth Marsalis obviously feels for the tiny village with a love of jazz."[18] The Los Angeles Times determined that Marsalis's trumpet playing is "filled with a pure, lighthearted, hard-swinging joie de vivre that is not always present in his more 'serious' works."[9] The Calgary Herald opined that The Marciac Suite "sometimes dabbles in the horn-heavy chaos of Marsalis' native New Orleans, though that often sounds calculated here."[13]
AllMusic deemed the album "the most artistically successful of Marsalis' original works in his 1999 series."[10] The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD considered it "one of Wynton's happiest and most sheerly enjoyable sets."[14]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Loose Duck" | |
2. | "The Big Top" | |
3. | "Jean-Louis Is Everywhere" | |
4. | "Mademoiselle d'Gascony" | |
5. | "Armagnac Dreams" | |
6. | "Marciac Fun" | |
7. | "For My Kids at the Collège of Marciac" | |
8. | "Marciac Moon" | |
9. | "d'Artagnan" | |
10. | "Guy Lafitte" | |
11. | "B Is for Boussaget (and Bass)" | |
12. | "In the House of Laberriere" | |
13. | "Sunflowers" |