Branford Marsalis | Random Abstract – [Columbia – 1988]
For all those people who are looking for an album that is just a vehicle to display their technical prowess this isn’t the album for you. For those people searching for an album that represents the highest level of music being produced at the time, Random Abstract is what you’ve been searching for. Recorded in 1987 at the time where the direction of jazz had been heading in a different direction for quite some time, Random Abstract re-focuses that bearing to what some people may call mainstream today. As the third jazz album to be released by Branford Marsalis there is evidence that an artist mature beyond his years has emerged. In not only sound but also his ability to create melody’s that can stand on their own, without the aid of a band to back them up. Continue readingBranford Marsalis | Random Abstract
11 Thursday Feb 2010
Posted Improvised Music, Modern Jazz
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