Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue is an album by Terri Lyne Carrington. It was released by Concord Jazz. It won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.
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| Released | February 25, 2013 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Concord Jazz | |||
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Recording and music
editDrummer Terri Lyne Carrington's album is based on Money Jungle, a recording by pianist Duke Ellington with double bassist Charles Mingus and drummer Max Roach,[1] which was released in 1963.[2] Her core trio for the recording included pianist Gerald Clayton and bassist Christian McBride.[3] Carrington said that she did not realize that her recording was made fifty years after Money Jungle, and that she had made the decision to do it about half a dozen years earlier.[4]
All but three of the tracks were written by Ellington.[3] Carrington's "Grass Roots" is a blues, her "No Boxes (Nor Words)" is a post-bop piece,[3] while Clayton's ballad "Cut Off" alludes to Ellington's "Solitude".[1] On "Rem Blues/Music", Shea Rose and Herbie Hancock read Ellington's poem "Music".[1]
Release and reception
edit| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [3] |
| Down Beat |  [5] |
| The Guardian | [6] |
Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue was released by Concord Jazz on February 25, 2013.[7] It won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.[8]
The Down Beat reviewer wrote that the presence of guests reduced the focus of the album, and commented that the trio tracks were more successful.[5] The JazzTimes reviewer criticized as obvious the use of "money-themed sound bites by present and former presidents", but described the album as a whole as "wholly engrossing".[9] For AllMusic's Thom Jurek, the spoken sound bites were "an artistic, musical indictment of the pervasive corruption in Western capitalism"; he praised Carrington because she "reveals the pervasive nature [of] the blues in the original album's compositions and intent, and underscores how their importance resonates in jazz's present tense".[3]
Track listing
editAll tracks were written by Duke Ellington, except where noted.
- "Money Jungle" – 6:21
- "Fleurette Africain" – 5:56
- "Backward Country Boy Blues" – 6:00
- "Very Special" – 4:11
- "Wig Wise" – 6:17
- "Grass Roots" (Terri Lyne Carrington) – 4:38
- "No Boxes (Nor Words)" (Carrington) – 5:37
- "A Little Max (Parfait)" – 5:01
- "Switch Blade" – 6:28
- "Cut Off" (Gerald Clayton) – 5:08
- "Rem Blues/Music" – 6:44
Source:[3]
Personnel
edit- Terri Lyne Carrington – drums
- Gerald Clayton – piano
- Christian McBride – bass
- Clark Terry – trumpet, vocals (track 2)
- Robin Eubanks – trombone (tracks 2, 9)
- Antonio Hart – flute (tracks 2, 9)
- Tia Fuller – flute (track 2), alto saxophone (track 9)
- Nir Felder – guitar (track 3)
- Arturo Stabile – percussion (track 8)
- Lizz Wright – vocals (track 3)
- Shea Rose – vocals (track 11)
- Herbie Hancock – vocals (track 11)
Source:[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c Milkowki, Bill (June 2013). "Carrington Gets Provocative". Down Beat. Vol. 80, no. 6. p. 36.
- ^ "Album Reviews". Billboard. February 9, 1963. p. 28.
- ^ a b c d e f Jurek, Thom. "Terri Lyne Carrington – Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue". AllMusic. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
- ^ Nemeyer, Eric (February 2013). "Terri Lyne Carrington". Jazz Inside. Vol. 4, no. 7. pp. 4–8.
- ^ a b c Robinson, Chris (March 2013). "Terri Lyne Carrington – Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue". Down Beat. Vol. 80, no. 3. p. 74.
- ^ Fordham, John (March 7, 2013). "Terri Lyne Carrington: Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue – Review". The Guardian. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
- ^ Spicer, Daniel (2013). "Terri Lyne Carrington Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue Review". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
- ^ "Grammy Awards Winners & Nominees for Best Instrumental Jazz Album". grammy.com. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
- ^ Tamarkin, Jeff (May 8, 2013). "Terri Lyne Carrington: Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue". JazzTimes. Retrieved October 25, 2020.