Bloomington (album)

Bloomington is a jazz album by Branford Marsalis, featuring the trio that had recorded his studio album The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. It peaked at number 9 on the Top Jazz Albums chart.[1]

Bloomington
Live album by
Branford Marsalis
ReleasedMay 1993
RecordedSeptember 23, 1991
GenreJazz
Length1:19:02
LabelSony Music
ProducerDr. George Butler (executive producer); Delfeayo Marsalis
Branford Marsalis chronology
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
(1992)		 Bloomington
(1993)		 Buckshot LeFonque
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Los Angeles Times[2]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[3]

In his AllMusic review, Scott Yanow calls the album "very long-winded and rather dull" and says of Marsalis that he "seems content to play the part of a chameleon, doing his impressions of late-period Coltrane, Sonny Rollins and (when he switches to soprano) Ornette Coleman."[1] The LA Times praised the recording, saying "the telling of what he finds is revealing and beautiful in ways only the best improvisational music can be."[2] Jazz historian David Hajdu called the recording "a career-positioning statement in matter-of-fact musical terms" and "insular music for the hard-bop elite" in a review for Entertainment Weekly[3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Branford Marsalis, except where indicated.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Xavier's Lair" 15:14
2."Everything Happens to Me"Tom Adair, Matt Dennis7:52
3."The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born" 19:24
4."Citizen Tain" 16:52
5."Friday the 13th"Thelonious Monk11:17
6."Roused About"Robert Hurst7:20

Personnel
gollark: Neat, better than expected.
gollark: On MonkeyType, ~130WPM because it doesn't make me do silly things like "punctuation" and "caps".
gollark: <@528237610943119381> This is on my actual keyboard with 450k.
gollark: Like I said, phone bad.
gollark: 43WPM (adjusted) at a bad 89% accuracy.

References
  1. Yanow, Scott. "Bloomington". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-10-20.
  2. Kohlhaase, Bill (1993-06-06). "Album Review: Branford Marsalis, Espressivo". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2014-10-20.
  3. Hajdu, David (1993-06-04). "Bloomington". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2014-10-20.
  • BranfordMarsalis.com
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