WYNTON MARSALIS Swingin' into the 21st

1. The Cat in the Hat Is Back - from the album Selections From the Village Vanguard Box

2. Loose Duck - from the album Marciac Suite

3. Northbound Southbound - from the album Big Train

4. A Hundred and a Hundred, A Hundred And Twelve - from the album All Rise

5. Observation Car - from the album, Big Train

6. Mademoiselle D’Gascony - from the album Marciac Suite

7. Morning Song - from the album Reeltime

8. Awakening - from the album Sweet Release & Ghost Story

9. Rampart St. Row House Rag - from the album At The Octoroon Balls

10. King Porter Stomp - from the album Standard Time, Vol. 6 - Mr. Jelly Lord

11. The Pearls - from the album Standard Time, Vol. 6 - Mr. Jelly Lord

12. Hackensack - from the album Marsalis Plays Monk, Standard Time, Vol. 4

13. Green Chimneys - from the album Marsalis Plays Monk, Standard Time, Vol. 4

14. Juba And A O’Brown Squaw - from the album Selections from The Village Vanguard Box

A feisty boy wonder no longer, Wynton Marsalis, at 50 years of age, has matured into the ever-phenomenal musician and thoughtful spokesperson that the music he loves deserves. The world’s most famous living jazz musician didn’t achieve that status on charm alone. The man who jump-started the jazz revival of the1980s and has upheld his high musical standards ever since, is a remarkable trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and arranger. Marsalis has exhibited prodigious skills that no other figure of his generation can match.

As the Pulitzer and 9-time Grammy Award-winner eases into his 50th birthday on October 18, 2011, he casts his memory back a dozen years to 1998-99 when - with the new millennium on the way - he began to lay plans for an unprecedented release of nine major album projects that would span 1999 and 2000. A timely name was given to the campaign, “Swinging into the 21st!” and the artist dedicated himself to the immense task ahead.

To celebrate Wynton’s 50th birthday, highlights from those nine albums – plus his career-defining masterpiece All Rise have been selected by the artist for one new compilation: SWINGING INTO THE 21st!

From chamber music to studio and live dates with his septet, jazz and blues tributes, film music, scores for ballet, modern classical and orchestral works, to some bonafide swing, Swingin’ Into The 21st also showcases collaborations with a diverse group of musicians and displays Marsalis’ extraordinary musical range.

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