Uptown Jazz Orchestra

01 Feb

[ February the 3rd, 2023 release via Troubadour Jass Records: Delfeayo Marsalis – Uptown on Mardi Gras Day ]

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Uptown on Mardi Gras Day, due out February 3, 2023 via Troubadour Jass Records, features guest appearances by Branford Marsalis, Marvin “Smitty” Smith and Glen David Andrews, performing classics by Professor Longhair, The Meters and Willie Tee !

“The Uptown Jazz Orchestra fills every inch of the room with a joyous noise.” – Michael Elliott, PopMatters

“The UJO sound [combines] the dance-first sensibility of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band crossed with Count Basie’s early riff bands and post-1952 ‘New Testament’ orchestras [and] the sophisticated dialects of Ellington, Mingus, Coltrane and Kenny Kirkland.” – Ted Panken, DownBeat

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01 Feb

[ February the 7th release from Troubador Jass: Delfeayo Marsalis’ Uptown Jazz Orchestra – Jazz Party ]

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release date: February 7, 2020 via Troubador Jass

Featuring Tonya Boyd-Cannon (“The Voice”), original UJO member and Dirty Dozen Brass Band co-founder Roger Lewis, rising star rhythm section Joe Dyson Jr. (Dr. Lonnie Smith, Ellis Marsalis) and Kyle Roussel (Preservation Hall Jazz Band, The Headhunters)

For the better part of a decade, acclaimed trombonist, producer and composer Delfeayo Marsalis has spent Wednesday nights at the helm of his sprawling Uptown Jazz Orchestra’s residency at Snug Harbor in New Orleans. With Jazz Party, Marsalis’ seventh album as a leader, he delivers an original composition-heavy set of music that showcases the same exuberant energy of those shows, complete with modernised twists on New Orleans songbook gems and musical traditions, and swinging, groove-infused homages to the contributions of modern jazz masters.