Description
Release Date: 2008
Label: Columbia Records
Track List
1 When It’s Sleepytime Down South 5:10
2 You Don’t Know What Love Is 6:23
3 Indelible And Nocturnal 4:11
4 I’ll Remember April 8:34
5 Embraceable You 7:15
6 Crepuscule With Nellie 3:04
7 What Is This Thing Called Love? 6:29
8 The End Of A Love Affair 3:12
9 East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon) 5:16
10 Lover 5:05
11 Yesterdays 9:36
12 Bourbon Street Parade 5:47
Personnel
Alto Saxophone – Wes Anderson* (tracks: 6)
Bass – Reginald Veal (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 12), Robert Hurst (tracks: 7)
Drums – Herlin Riley (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 12), Jeff Watts* (tracks: 12)
Piano – Marcus Roberts (tracks: 1 to 11)
Tenor Saxophone – Todd Williams (tracks: 4, 6)
Trumpet – Wynton Marsalis
Review
Wynton Marsalis’s second of three standard albums was actually released after the third volume. On most of the selections, the brilliant trumpeter is heard in excellent form with his quartet (comprised of pianist Marcus Roberts, bassist Reginald Veal or Robert Hurst and either Herlin Riley or Jeff Watts on drums); tenorman Todd Williams helps out on “I’ll Remember April” and altoist Wes Anderson is also added to “Crepuscule with Nellie.” Marsalis’s tone really makes the ballads worth hearing, and his unusual choice and placement of notes keeps the music stimulating. This mostly bop-oriented set is rounded off by a jaunty version of “Bourbon Street Parade.”
