Video: Wynton Marsalis Quintet rehearsing with Jared Grimes in Marciac
On August 1, 2007, Wynton was rehearsing with his Quintet for the August 2, 2007, concert in Marciac. The following video-clip will take you behind the stages to appreciate how the musicians played and interacted together. Awesome tap dancer Jared Grimes was guest.
Quintet personnel was: Wynton Marsalis (trumpet); Walter Blanding (sax); Dan Nimmer (piano); Carlos Henriquez (bass); Ali Jackson (drums).
Music consists of a nearly hour-long recent work by Wynton titled “Music, Deep Rivers in My Soul.”
Its point of departure is a poetic text by Maya Angelou and it is set for a jazz quintet with a speaker and a dancer. The format echoes Stravinsky’s “L’Histoire du Soldat,” but unlike the Stravinsky/Ramuz story of a soldier who makes a pact with the devil, the Marsalis/Angelou work is a portrait of black music, those who create it and those who listen to it. Wynton’s score embodies a kaleidoscopic amalgam of blues, Gospel, funeral marches, spirituals, swing and bebop.
| The Drums | (08:43 min. - 77.4 mb) |
| Naked Feet Running | (03:31 min. - 31.4 mb) |
| The Cry of the Lonely | (03:13 min. - 28.3 mb) |
| Mind on Tunisia (A Night in Tunisia) | (09:04 min. - 83.3 mb) |
| Broke Like Bone | (03:50 min. - 34.1 mb) |
| Broke Like Bone (Part II) | (03:45 min. - 34.1 mb) |
| A Glory Train (Take the A Train) | (06:03 min. - 53.8 mb) |
| Deep River | (02:06 min. - 18.4 mb) |
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Sonalii said
on October 27, 2007 @ 12:18 am
Thank you for posting the videos. I particularly enjoyed the quintet’s version of “Night in Tunisia.” If that’s what took place during rehearsals, I can only imagine what the actual performances were like. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the videos.
François said
on October 27, 2007 @ 1:49 am
These rehearsals are lovely.
Wynton and Jared Grimes should record a new album !
tom schuring said
on October 28, 2007 @ 12:50 am
i loved the version of ‘a night in tunisia’
thank you !!
François said
on October 28, 2007 @ 4:57 pm
I love the ballad.number 3
careba said
on October 28, 2007 @ 7:42 pm
Thank you for these really interesting videos; showing the work backstage.
Sonalii, I can asure you that the performances were superb.
My fav video is number III. BTW, someone said it´s a ballad but,…. ain´t it a blues???.
I also liked very much number II.
Then number I (´cause it recalled me the fab. concert of Sweet Honey in the Rock preceeding Wynton´s one. How beautiful traditional songs, what amazing voices and what incredible sounds, sometimes it was like listening to sounds of nature….All beautiful and new to me…how elegant presentation, all of them sitted in semicircle,and their gestures…was incredible. Want to thank you Wynton for this new musical discovery to me. Really beautiful music).
And also like number IV….Well….I really like all of them.
Thank you, thank you, thank you per il capo lavoro.
Another perspective and really interesting.
C.
careba said
on October 28, 2007 @ 9:09 pm
Sonalii, here you see a little bit (less than half a minute!, but nothing is less) of the concert; just to got an idea of how it was:
C.
Karen said
on October 29, 2007 @ 5:43 pm
Careba,
That sounds like Number I. Am I correct?
Karen
careba said
on October 29, 2007 @ 6:48 pm
Hi Karen,
Well… (blush!)….can´t really confirm it…I´m sorry.
And in youtube they don´t identify it with any number or title.
C.
Sonalii said
on October 29, 2007 @ 6:54 pm
Careba,
Thank you for sharing that priceless gem.
Karen said
on October 30, 2007 @ 12:10 am
I hear the Number 1 themes in Dan’s chords on the piano. It’s a beautiful clip. The colors are great, blues for the Bluesman.
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on October 30, 2007 @ 4:04 am
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Karen said
on October 30, 2007 @ 1:45 pm
OK!! and I fixed my iTunes download problem, Luigi. “Most recent download” was checked, so I hit “download all” and that fixed everything.
careba said
on October 31, 2007 @ 5:09 pm
Hi Karen,
this is another small part (even smaller) in youtube from Wynton’s Quintet concert with Jared Grimes:
C.
Colin Mark said
on November 1, 2007 @ 5:40 am
Nice video adding. thanks
Sonalii said
on November 3, 2007 @ 2:49 am
How does one post a review for the podcasts in iTunes?
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on November 3, 2007 @ 3:36 am
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careba said
on December 20, 2007 @ 7:33 pm
Just out of curiosity, what kind of material is the surface over the one Grimes is currently taping? and the one he tapes on the videos and taped in Marciac?????
C.
Luigi Beverelli said
on December 21, 2007 @ 12:19 pm
it’s wood
Wynton and Maya Angelou speak about “Music, Deep Rivers in my Soul” - Wynton Marsalis official web site said
on December 25, 2007 @ 10:29 am
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careba said
on December 28, 2007 @ 10:03 pm
……They could only found ice!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWrmfEJyiWk
Merry Christmas again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
C.