{"id":3818,"date":"2012-07-15T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2012-07-18T16:50:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T23:50:26","slug":"cd-branford-marsalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/07\/cd-branford-marsalis\/","title":{"rendered":"CD: Branford Marsalis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Branford Marsalis, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Playin-Tunes-Marsalis-Quartet-Branford\/dp\/B007GGO2R8\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;s=music&#038;keywords=Branford%20Marsalis%20Quartet%20Four%20MFs%20Playin%27%20Tunes&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;qid=1342223167&#038;camp=1789&#038;sr=1-1&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Four MFs Playin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Tunes<\/em><\/a> (Marsalis Music)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Marsalis-MFs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Marsalis-MFs.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Marsalis MFs\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Marsalis-MFs.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Marsalis-MFs-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Marsalis-MFs-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The Marsalis quartet achieves openness without abandoning harmonic guidelines, hipness without complex chord permutations. A saxophone soloist who manages to meld aggressiveness and wryness, Marsalis is at his peak here. The delight that he, pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and young drummer Justin Faulkner find in supporting and surprising one another is likely to also affect the listener. The tunes are by members of the band except for Thelonious Monk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Teo\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Richard Whiting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My Ideal,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the latter with a tenor solo that combines tenderness and wit. A highlight: Marsalis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Treat it Gentle,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d recalling Sidney Bechet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s passion on soprano, but not his wide vibrato.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Branford Marsalis, Four MFs Playin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Tunes (Marsalis Music) The Marsalis quartet achieves openness without abandoning harmonic guidelines, hipness without complex chord permutations. A saxophone soloist who manages to meld aggressiveness and wryness, Marsalis is at his peak here. The delight that he, pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and young drummer Justin Faulkner find in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}