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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Drummer 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]
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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]
All tracks were written by Duke Ellington, except where noted.
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