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The Death Of Jazz

by Wynton Marsalis · from THE MUSIC OF AMERICA: Inventing Jazz - Wynton Marsalis

1988Jazz12:42Track 9

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an album you don't listen to so much as live inside for a month.

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Not every song lands, but when it does it LANDS. “The Death Of Jazz” is the keeper.

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Disc 1
1
Jazz: 6 1/2 Syncopated Movements: Express Crossing (Astride Iron Horses)
sample avg 4.0
5:12
2
Jazz: 6 1/2 Syncopated Movements: "D" in the Key of "F" (Now the Blues)
sample avg 3.0
5:17
3
Jump Start - The Mastery of Melancholy: Jump
sample avg 3.7 · Wynton Marsalis & Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
4:22
4
Station Call
sample avg 3.1 · Wynton Marsalis
2:04
5
The Caboose
sample avg 3.4 · Wynton Marsalis
7:08
6
Sweet Release: Church: Renewing Vows
sample avg 3.9 · Wynton Marsalis & Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
7:20
7
Go, Possum, Go (Instrumental)
sample avg 3.6 · Mark O'Connor & Mark Schatz
2:00
8
Jean-Louis Is Everywhere
sample avg 3.8 · Wynton Marsalis
4:56
9
For My Kids at the Collège of Marciac
sample avg 3.6 · Wynton Marsalis
4:04
10
Sunflowers
sample avg 3.5 · Wynton Marsalis
10:01
11
At the Octoroon Balls - String Quartet No. 1 *: Hellbound Highball
sample avg 3.8 · Orion String Quartet
8:22
12
A Fiddler's Tale Suite: The Fiddler's March
sample avg 4.0 · Wynton Marsalis & The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
3:21
13
All Rise: Movement 1: Jubal Step
sample avg 3.9 · Esa-Pekka Salonen, Wynton Marsalis, Wes Anderson, Paul Smith Singers, The Northridge Singers of CSUN, Morgan State University Choir, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
11:21
14
Movement 12: I Am (Don't You Run From Me) from All Rise (Edit)
sample avg 3.8 · Wynton Marsalis & Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
2:53
Disc 2
1
The Majesty Of The Blues (The Puheeman Strut)
sample avg 3.8 · Wynton Marsalis
15:05
2
Jump Start - The Mastery of Melancholy: The Dance
sample avg 3.5 · Wynton Marsalis & Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
3:36
3
Move Over (Edit)
sample avg 3.9 · Wynton Marsalis
9:08
4
Double Rondo On The River (Pedro's Getaway)
sample avg 3.2 · Wynton Marsalis
9:27
5
Spring Yaoundé
sample avg 3.1 · Wynton Marsalis
6:02
6
Soul For Sale
sample avg 3.7 · Wynton Marsalis
6:08
7
Altar Call
sample avg 3.2 · Wynton Marsalis
1:32
8
In the Sweet Embrace of Life Sermon: Holy Ghost
sample avg 3.5 · Wynton Marsalis
7:03
9
The Death Of Jazz
sample avg 3.9 · Wynton Marsalis
12:42
10
Oh, But On The Third Day (Happy Feet Blues)
sample avg 3.0 · Wynton Marsalis
6:46