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Recorded: August 25-27, 1998, The Supper Club, New York, New York
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
Wessell "Warmdaddy" Anderson, Ted Nash (alto saxophone); Victor Goines (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Walter Blanding Jr. (tenor saxophone); Joe Temperley (baritone saxophone); Wynton Marsalis, Seneca Black, Ryan Kisor, Marcus Printup (trumpet); Wayne Goodman, Wycliffe Gordon, Ronald Westray (trombone); Cyrus Chestnut (piano); Rodney Whitaker (bass); Herlin Riley (drums)
Additional personnel:
Dianne Reeves, Milt Grayson (vocals); Illinois Jacquet (tenor saxophone)
This workmanlike disc by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra features Wynton Marsalis in a tribute to Duke Ellington. The question is, do they pay tribute to anyone else? The performance is fine, but a little rote, turning the master's work into dogma. Hardly a tribute.
---Tim Sheridan, allmusic |
