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Branford Marsalis - Speaking His Thuth
Branford Marsalis - Speaking His Thuth
Branford Marsalis - Speaking His Thuth
Bassist Eric Revis and pianist Joey
Calderazzo, both longtime members
of the Branford Marsalis Quartet,
each contributed two songs to The
Secret Between The Shadow And
The Soul (OKeh/Sony Masterworks).
Revis Dance Of The Evil Toys is
a piece that was inspired by Russian
particular, Revis explained. It came
fairly quickly. He described his
other contribution, Nilaste, as an
extended tone poem.
Revis wrote the songs during a
2018 residency at The Jazz Gallery.
Usually, my process is to write,
revise, and write morebut this was
two weeks of no distractions, he
said.
In contrast, Calderazzo had been
playing Cianna and Conversation
Among The Ruins with his trio since
2016.
Branford and I did Cianna as a
duo, too, and I said, This will work
good in the quartet; its not a real-
ly great trio song, Calderazzo
recalled. Theres a way, when
Branford plays the melody, I kind of
play it with him, and we do things to
stretch out a little. We actually play
the melody different every night, but
we do it together.
Calderazzos other ballad,
Conversation Among The Ruins,
originally was titled Free, and has
been reworked with a new arrange-
ment for the quartet. Calderazzo
recalled, Id played it with Eric, and
he said, You should bring this to
Branfordits the perfect song for
him. Denise Sullivan