From the Plantation to the Penitentiary

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From the Plantation to the Penitentiary
Wynton Marsalis From the Plantation To The Penitentiary.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 6, 2007 (2007-03-06)
RecordedJune 28 – 29, 2006
Genre Jazz
Length58:26
Label Blue Note
Producer Delfeayo Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis chronology
Don't Be Afraid: The Music of Charles Mingus
(2005)
From the Plantation to the Penitentiary
(2007)
The War: A Ken Burns Film
(2007)

From the Plantation to the Penitentiary is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that was released in 2007. It reached No. 2 on Billboard's Top Jazz chart.

Contents

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BBC (Favorable) March 13, 2007
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Track listing

All tracks are written by Wynton Marsalis.

No.TitleLength
1."From the Plantation to the Penitentiary"11:48
2."Find Me"9:34
3."Doin' (Y)our Thing"8:37
4."Love and Broken Hearts"7:40
5."Supercapitalism"6:55
6."These Are Those Soulful Days"8:04
7."Where Y'all At?"5:48

Personnel

Charts

Further reading

References

  1. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 953. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  2. Wynton Marsalis at billboard.com