Ellis Marsalis
Solo Piano Reflections

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If poetry is the "distilled essence of prose", then ELLIS MARSALIS has become a rare poet of the piano. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in his "Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton," said: "I wish clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is Prose - words in their best order; Poetry - the best words in their best order."

That best solves, for me, the attempt to explain just what makes ELLIS MARSALIS one of the brightest lights on the pianistic (and musical) horizon today. Why Robert Palmer, a frequent contributor to so unlikely a combination as Rolling Stone, The New York Times, termed him "New Orleans' resident genius."

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Selections

• 1 Oneness
  • Ellis Marsalis
• 2 Syndrome
  • Ellis Marsalis
• 3 Blues for Art "T"
  • Ellis Marsalis
• 4 Jitterbug Waltz
  • Thomas "Fats" Waller
• 5 Sweet Georgia Brown
  • Thomas "Fats" Waller
• 6 Django
  • John Lewis
• 7 Willow Weep for Me
  • Ann Ronell
• 8 Gershwin Medley (from "Porgy & Bess"): There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York; Summertime; Bess, Where's My Bess; I Got Plenty of Nothin'; Bess You Is My Woman
  • George Gershwin
• 9 Spain
  • Chick Corea
• 10 My Funny Valentine
  • Rogers/L. Hart
• 11 Nem Um Talvez
  • Miles Davis
• 12 Bess You Is My Woman
  • George Gershwin
• 13 Fool On a Hill
  • Lennon/McCartney

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Year Released: 1999

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