The Dark Keys

by Branford Marsalis Trio

The Dark Keys cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 29 October 1996
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:01:36
  • Community rating: 3.77/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Returning to a saxophone trio format without a chordal instrument, Marsalis explores intense, highly liberated post-bop interplay. The recording captures incredibly fiery, complex improvisational dialogues, allowing the rhythm section immense freedom to push the harmonic boundaries.

Genres

Descriptors: saxophone, piano, improvisation, bluesy, melodic

Tracklist

  1. The Dark Keys (10:42)
  2. Hesitation (5:58)
  3. A Thousand Autumns (6:20)
  4. Sentinel (8:49)
  5. Lykeif (6:04)
  6. Judas Iscariot (7:48)
  7. Blutain (7:37)
  8. Schott Happens (8:16)

Credits

  • Branford Marsalis Trio - primary artist
  • Kenny Garrett - alto saxophone
  • Reginald Veal - bass
  • Jeff "Tain" Watts - drums, written-by
  • Jason Marsalis - edited by
  • Joe Lovano - tenor saxophone
  • Branford Marsalis - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, written-by
  • Wynton Marsalis - written-by

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