Hot House Flowers

Wynton Marsalis · 1984 · with strings and winds, arr. Bob Freedman

Context

Composition by Wynton Marsalis that gives its title to a 1984 album on which the trumpeter plays with a string and wind orchestra arranged and conducted by Bob Freedman. The only original on a Columbia album otherwise made up of standards (Carmichael, Ellington, John Lewis), the album brings together Branford Marsalis, Kenny Kirkland, Ron Carter and Jeff Watts around the trumpeter.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Neoclassicism, Young Lions. Among the origins and influences of Neoclassicism, Young Lions: Hard bop, Modal.

By the same artist

• Black Codes (From the Underground) (1985)

Sources

• EN: Hot House Flowers (album)

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