Return to the Wide Open Spaces | ||||
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Released | October 1, 1990 | |||
Recorded | 1990 | |||
Venue | Caravan of Dreams, Fort Worth, Texas | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 66:26 | |||
Label | Amazing AMCD-1021 | |||
Producer | Jim Yanaway | |||
David "Fathead" Newman chronology | ||||
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Ellis Marsalis chronology | ||||
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Cornell Dupree chronology | ||||
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Return to the Wide Open Spaces is a live album by American saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman,pianist Ellis Marsalis and guitarist Cornell Dupree,recorded at the Caravan of Dreams in 1990 and released on the Amazing label. [1] [2] [3]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
Los Angeles Times | [5] |
In his review for AllMusic,Scott Yanow states "For this live concert recorded at the Caravan of Dreams in Fort Worth,a mostly all-star group of Texas jazzmen (plus pianist Ellis Marsalis from New Orleans) was gathered together. The music,which includes four blues and three standards among its nine selections,lacks any real surprises. ... Some better planning and the utilization of a few charts (rather than the funcitonal frameworks) would have elevated the pleasing date to a much higher level". [4] The Los Angeles Times said "there's a lot of good,unpretentious playing here... More originality and less predictability would have improved this date". [5]
Ellis Louis Marsalis Jr. was an American jazz pianist and educator. Active since the late 1940s,Marsalis came to greater attention in the 1980s and 1990s as the patriarch of the musical Marsalis family,when sons Branford and Wynton became popular jazz musicians.
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