Marcus Roberts Performs Deep In The Shed

[marcello]

..... a group of great musicians, some of whom are seriously ill and will never be able to play together again.

Who in all the world is so seriously ill? More information, please!

Wes "Warmdaddy" Anderson had a stroke last year. He's recovering well, I heard last Summer.

Edited February 5, 2008 by marcello

[AllenLowe]

"I've never had any luck getting sexy with a record"

try a 45 - larger hole in the center -

[Christiern]

Where are cylinders when we need them?

[Free For All]

..... a group of great musicians, some of whom are seriously ill and will never be able to play together again.

Who in all the world is so seriously ill? More information, please!

Wes "Warmdaddy" Anderson had a stroke last year. He's recovering well, I heard last Summer.

He was just in town a couple weeks ago. He seems to have fully recovered.

[Debra]

..... a group of great musicians, some of whom are seriously ill and will never be able to play together again.

Who in all the world is so seriously ill? More information, please!

No one is ill. What I meant was that the Roberts' project is not motivated by someone being ill.

I was thinking that Miles Davis performed some concerts just before he died with some of his former sidemen, and with the Q. Jones big band at Montreux, as he knew that he was very ill and apparently wanted to revisit his past.

But there is nothing like that going on with the Marcus Roberts album revival, so why is Marcus Roberts bothering with it? That was my point.

[AllenLowe]

never have sex with a wax cylinder during a heat wave -

[bertrand]

Since he's playing this for the second time, does that make him Marcus 'two sheds' Roberts?

Bertrand.

[John Tapscott]

Had the chance to listen to this a couple of times over the past couple of days. I think it's pretty good, at least as good as I had remembered and better than I had expected. The first couple of tunes drag a bit, but once track three hits, the music picks up steam and swings pretty hard. Not "memorable" tunes really, but interesting enough as you listen to them. Some pretty neat voicings, especially with Wycliffe Gordon adding the plunger sounds. The soloists, notably Wes Anderson on alto and Herb Harris on tenor are very effective. Roberts plays some nice block chord solos and "E. Dankworth" (Wynton) sounds pretty happy as he swings through the closing track. Well worth your listening time, I would say. 3.5 stars (at least).