Delfeayo Marsalis & The Uptown Jazz Orchestra at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club

"It's not hard to pinpoint why Delfeayo Marsalis' New Orleans-based Uptown Jazz Orchestra's recent release, "Jazz Party", and its 2016 predecessor, "Make American Great Again", both on Troubadour Jass, and both consisting primarily of his compositions and arrangements --- rank among the strongest big band discs of the past 10 years...One attribute is a percolating rhythmic palette --- relentless funk and gospel grooves, ebullient second-line syncopations, Afro-Caribbean-flavored street beats, undulating old-school press rolls, the distinctive flow of nouveau swing. Then there's the breathe-as-one synchronicity of the woodwind and brass sections honed during more than a decade of Wednesday gigs at the eminent New Orleans nightclub Snug Harbor," states DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE...

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"It's not hard to pinpoint why Delfeayo Marsalis' New Orleans-based Uptown Jazz Orchestra's recent release, "Jazz Party", and its 2016 predecessor, "Make American Great Again", both on Troubadour Jass, and both consisting primarily of his compositions and arrangements --- rank among the strongest big band discs of the past 10 years...One attribute is a percolating rhythmic palette --- relentless funk and gospel grooves, ebullient second-line syncopations, Afro-Caribbean-flavored street beats, undulating old-school press rolls, the distinctive flow of nouveau swing. Then there's the breathe-as-one synchronicity of the woodwind and brass sections honed during more than a decade of Wednesday gigs at the eminent New Orleans nightclub Snug Harbor," states DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE.

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