The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

Branford Marsalis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 1991)
• Original Release Date: October 1, 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000027GF
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #228,581 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Branford's best!, October 4, 2003

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Stinji "stinji" (Northampton, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Audio CD)

This album is a sampler platter of post-bop musical styles, and Branford, Tain, and Robert Hurst pull each approach off beautifully. The highlight for me is the title track, a gorgeous, mournful, Coltrane-inspired meditation. The playing on this record is, of course, phenomenal. If you like this album, check out their live renditions of these tunes on "Bloomington". Amazing.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential '90s jazz, January 4, 1999

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This review is from: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Audio CD)

This record, along with Branford's "Trio Jeepy," "Bloomington," and "The Dark Keys" will make for an absolutely essential boxed set one day. But this record is the crown jewel of these complex, highly swinging, and fiercely beautiful albums. This is improvisatory interaction at its crisp and passionate best. Marsalis, Watts, and Hurst deliver outstanding performances, and their experience as a working band shows here. These guys are practically breathing each other's air.

Breathtaking balladry, playful blueses, and clarity of thought dominate this album.

Do not pass this up (unless, like the above reviewer, you can actually stomach Kenny G)

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps Branford at his best, July 29, 2000

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Joshua Sellers (New Orleans, LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Audio CD)

If you like good jazz "in the tradition," this is a must for any jazz collector. "Roused About" has a great monkish feel to it (named after one of Monk's tenor players). "The Beautyful Ones" is a sublime ballad, and reminds me of Coltrane's meditative pieces like "Alabama"-- but very "operatic" in some sense. The musical approach is largely free, and emotionally tense, but not necessarily atonal (think 60's Miles Davis, not Ornette Coleman). If you are into Kenny G, don't buy this album-- this is real jazz-- not instrumental pop!