Album Review: Jazz Party from Delfeayo Marsalis and the the Uptown Jazz Orchestra
Album: Jazz Party Artist: Delfeayo Marsalis and the the Uptown Jazz Orchestra Label: Troubadour Jass Records Website: www.dmarsalis.com On a mission to make music that uplifts, excites, and invigorates in the traditional jazz culture style of New Orleans, trombonist and bandleader Delfeayo Marsalis embarked on his latest offering Jazz Party , creating what audiences perceive to be happy jazz. Indeed, he accomplishes his mission and delivers to audiences very happy, hot jazz on the recording with the big band splash of jazz music's forefathers. The twittering of the horns through "Blackbird Special" integrates funky swells contoured in Latin swing, and big band panache. The party atmosphere has a catchy exuberance that is authentic in its delivery as the instruments interlock along the motifs. The cha-cha rhythm underpinning "7th Ward Boogaloo" has horns trading off solos, entering intermittently and changing the bouncy vibrations that make th...