Track Listing

1. Party's Over
2. You're Blasé
3. After You've Gone
4. Glad to Be Unhappy
5. It Never Entered My Mind
6. Baby Won't You Please Come Home
7. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
8. I Got Lost in Her Arms
9. Ballad of the Sad Young Men
10. Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year
11. My Man's Gone Now
12. Midnight Blues

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22297 in Music
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 1998-04-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Amazon.com essential recording
Opening curiously with the classic reveler's benediction "The Party's Over," this 12-selection program of standard material finds Wynton Marsalis's buttery trumpet elegance in the superb company of Eric Reed on piano, Reginald Veal on bass, and Lewis Nash on drums. Augmenting this debonair quartet is the delicately balanced string orchestration of Robert Freedman, who some may recall from Marsalis's original with-strings date, Hot House Flowers. Removing the CD from its jewel-case tray reveals an inside back-cover photo of a recently vacated bed, leaving little doubt that this is another in Wynton's ongoing subseries of romantic interludes. His trumpet is aptly broad and gorgeous in tone, seeking the beauty spots inherent in these romantic short stories. "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" indeed! --Willard Jenkins

From Jazziz
With his extensive classical training and a background steeped in jazz tradition, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis made an indelible mark on both classical and jazz worlds in the early 1980s. Thus, Marsalis seemed a natural to combine jazz with strings. However, he has only sporadically used them in a jazz setting outside of his 1984 Grammy-winning classic, Hot House Flowers. On "Spring Will be a Little Late This Year" from the 1998 release The Midnight Blues -Standard Time, Vol. 5 (arranged and conducted by Robert Freeman), we hear him displaying his passion and strengths on both sides of the equation.

--- JAZZIZ Magazine Copyright © 2000, Milor Entertainment, Inc.

Jazz Times
[T]his marks volume 5 in Marsalis's ongoing chronicle of the great standard songs of the 20th century. To the spare and entirely complementary setting of Eric Reed's piano, Reginald Veal's bass and Lewis Nash's drums, the date blends the string arrangements of Robert Freeman.

Customer Reviews

Simply Inspiring
I am a 14 year old aspiring trumpet player and I sit first in my middle school band. My band director told me I needed to "search for a sound-listen to the greats and work to be as magnificent." Well I think I have found the greatest. Wynton Marsalis has inspired me to become the best trumpet player I can be. I love his sound, and I'm going to work to achieve it. If you are like me and are on a "sound search," or maybe if you just have a passion for listening to the greatest instrument of all time, Wynton Marsalis is for you.

Among his Very Best
Don't let the "quietness" and "laid back" nature of this music fool you; there's a lot going on here. Wynton's playing here is blues based jazz at its best, and the supporting cast here is simply terrific. Production value is top notch, and the song selection is clever and the arrangements challenging.

This is wonderfully accessible music that is clearly played by highly practiced and intelligent people, and its mood reflects the space artists can reach when they have done all of the necessary preparation. A feast for the ears and other senses, this is intelligent mood music (and I mean that in its very best sense) that can be appreciated in a practically unlimited number of ways.

Instrumental Ecstasy
The selections on this CD will definitely put you in the mood...for love or just true relaxation. I love the strings. They provide a special touch of pure romance. The musicians involved in this project are true masters of their art and Wynton...well he's Wynton...simply wonderful. This is one that you'll want to listen to over and over again-right around MIDNIGHT. I do...every night.....SWEET DREAMS!