Live at Blues Alley is one of the best jazz albums of all time. The interplay between the four of them is inhuman, possibly the best I've ever heard as well. What makes it even sicker is that Marcus is blind and the others hardly ever look at each other; listening of the highest order. Cheers from Florida.

This is straight ahead jazz in its most basic, most beautiful form. I could sit and listen to these guys play all day long.

Flavor !!

i love this piece and this performance. marcus roberts and wynton marsalis are jazz legends in my book. right up there with the other greats.

Jeff Tain Watts is my prefered drummer. Thanks for share this video!!

Love the black codes album. And Marcus makes me sick....said with love!

I just listened to this last week off ‘The Black Codes’ album while going through downtown DC about a block from the White House! Masterpiece!

Absolutely! This album got me through many late nights studying in college. I haven't heard a track from this album in awhile, and now I'm going to dig out my old copy on cassette.

This is cool! I'm playing with Wynton Marsalis in June- he's a true master!

Fantastici!!!

wow!!!! this is really dynamite. its nice to compare this to the blues alley album version. marcus roberts is genius!!!

Blues & Swing. I have this DVD. This band is fucking awesome.

DAMN... why don't he play like this anymore?

this gives me chills

Thank you for posting! Live at Blues Alley is one of my favorite WM albums. This was the same band at the same time. Cheers...

Absolutely great stuff!

It's true, Watts provides drive and form to the solos like nobody else. Makes a huge difference.

So burning!

JUST GREAT !!!

Brilliant solo....

Yeh, this is when Wynton was really happening. Strange that he abandoned this 'style' of music. In fact everybody was strong in that band. Marcus Roberts was also full of promise, Robert Hurst to.

so great!! jeff's comping is so hip

6:22 says it all. Jeff is feeling it!

man, these dudes dont waste time fuckn around with niceties and small talk. They're in there from the get go. Heavyweight

Why isn't this out on CD and DVD? Both Marsalis brothers are at their best when Watts is the drummer. He is able to push them in ways that other drummers can't.

6:28 ❤❤

I wore this VHS tape out!

@blackguy119 yes pleeeeease! i love this album!

Well, I must say that Wyntons opinions about the importance of to learn the roots of jazz. It serves the music and keeps the ingredients that I like about it! Moore people should spend moore time litsening to Ellington and Sidney Bechet these days.

I'm always surprised how low on his top lip he sits the mouthpece and yet still gets a full sound.

wow

I am not a huge Jeff Watts fan, but I've never heard anyone play as spontaneously together as Watts and Roberts. I mean it's frigging scary.

Jeff Tain

Solid.

@blackguy119 I will try to upload the rest of "Black Codes". The album was defin itely one of the great recordings produced by him.

He is beasting from 1:04-1:09.

Actually this song is from the "Black Codes" album but I love "J Mood" as well.

One more thing: I'm simply an amateur jazz musician, not a professional. Wynton has volunteered for a service project I helped put together in New Orleans for this June.

damn, tain is heavy on this

at his sizzling best! from my fave album of his "j mood"

6:37

Is this available on DVD? That's some amazing playing by Mr. Marsalis and the entire quartet!

That is actually a Monette trumpet he is playing here...a VERY early model.

i stand corrected! was mixing it up with "skain's domain" another sizzling track.

I wonder what's the story behind the title.

he does play like this today but you choose not to listen

Still trying to figure that out :)

Where was this performance?

didn't you leave out Marcus Belgrave?

wow there's a shot around :45 that shows how much bottom lip he uses...

You left out Terence Blanchard, Sean Jones & Ambrose Akinmusire

thats definately a early model monette...just look at the mouthpiece

Isin't quoting yourself just a lick you play. Shit, I quote myself all the time.

sure it is a selmer

Some stuff huh?

When you get a close look he has heaps of top lip in the cup, check out the shape of his lips, the statement you make about deterioration has no merit I'm sorry to say.

Listen to Wynton smoke that Bach--give up those stupid Monettes. Maybe he would sound like this again,. He would have been the best trumpet player ever had he stuck with the bach.