[Dixielandjazz] Bearden and Marsalis

[Ed Danielson]

Apropos of the Romare Bearden exhibit, has anyone else heard Branford 
Marsalis' newest CD? It's called "Romare Bearden Revealed," a celebration of 
the exhibit.  It's VERY nice:  he sounds for all the world like Sidney 
Bechet.  Apparently Bearden wrote some music in addition to his painting.  I 
like a lot of Branford's modern stuff, but this one really surprised me -- 
I've never heard him sound mouldier.  More info at

http://www.marsalismusic.com/content.cfm?selection=doc.27

>Art seems to be in the DJML air at the moment so anyone in Washington, DC 
>might wish to view the exhibit, at the National Gallery of Art, of Romare 
>Bearden, an artist of the Harlem Renaissance, one section of which contains 
>his jazz pictures.


"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward."
-- James Thurber

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