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| | Product Details | | Audio CD Release Date: | November 30, 2004 | | Studio: | Blue Note Records | | Composer: | Wynton Marsalis | | Number Of Discs: | 1 | | Format: | Soundtrack | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 7 reviews |
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| | Track Listing | | 1. | What Have You Done? | | 2. | Ghost In The House | | 3. | Jack Johnson Two-Step | | 4. | But Deep Down | | 5. | Love & Hate | | 6. | High Society | | 7. | Careless Love | | 8. | New Orleans Bump | | 9. | Touble My Soul | | 10. | Deep Creek | | 11. | The Johnson 2-Step | | 12. | Rattlesnake Tail Swing | | 13. | Weary Blues | | 14. | Troubles My Soul | | 15. | Johnson Two-Step | | 16. | Fire In The Night | | 17. | Morning Song | | 18. | I'll Sing My Song | | 19. | Buddy Bolden's Blues | | 20. | The Last Bell | | 21. | We'll Meet Again Someday | |
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19 of 21 found the following review helpful:
 What CAN'T this amazing musician do? Dec 01, 2004
By Birdman
Wynton Marsalis's, soulful, syncopated and very moving score is one of the finest jazz scores to have emerged since Duke Ellington did ANATOMY OF A MURDER. Marsalis draws on blues, dance and jazz idioms of the period conducting a small ensemble with all the right pieces and plenty of brass.
The opening cut, "What have you done?" is (not to pun, please) a knockout. It is dark, rhythmic and ominous. It prophesies the tragedy to befall Johnson in his prime. By comparison, the closer, "We'll meet again someday" speaks of Johnson's growing impotence in his fall from grace. Eric Lewis's nimble piano and Victor Goines' spicy clarinet, remind listeners the world continued to spin in the midst of Johnson's tragedy, and that the same world would continue to wreak havoc with its proprietary racism, politically condoned and socially acceptable, both now and then.
EMI's engineers deliver a crisp, natural acoustic to the proceedings. Liner note are interesting, but might have been longer, particularly the section written by Burns' colleague, Geoffrey C. Ward.
In all, the performance merits a more regal presentation, although I'm grateful we have it in any form.
A wonderful jazz soundtrack with an authentically vintage feel.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Strong Set Matches Subject Jan 21, 2005
By D. Sean Brickell
The thought occured to me whilst listening to this CD that Mr. Johnson and Mr. Marsalis share some common denomonators. Not the obvious comparisions of race and rise to the top of their respective crafts, mind you. But an inner drive and ability to enthral the masses regardless of the situation.
I admit this CD was approached with apprehension. I mean, Miles did the ultimate "Tribute to Jack Johnson" decades ago. And anyone who follows jazz in the least realizes the friction between Miles and Wynton. Why would Mr. Marsalis take such a chellenge.
Therein is the similarlity I see between him and his subject. Both men seem to perform best under the stress of a high-profile assignment. And, not dissimilar, both rose to the challenge and shine brighter than could be imagined.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
mostly a KNOCKOUT! Mar 25, 2007
By Eduardo Nietzsche
A few of the tracks are kind of difficult to really get into, but there's plenty of rich juicy stuff here, particularly the last track "We'll Meet Again Someday." Marsalis has composed a score that justly deserves to be joined with this truly amazing documentary on a truly amazing man and boxer.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
It is good.......again Feb 25, 2005
By Arthur E. Kyle
"paradigm1"
This is fun music that takes you back in time. Back to..oh..the 1999 release "Reeltime". The soundtrack Wynton wrote for the movie "Rosewood" that was not used. Play track #1 on both albums "Rosewood" on "Reeltime" and "What Have You Done" on "Unforgivable Blackness"...notice a similarity. Try "Rattlesnake Tail Swing" on "Reeltime" and..um.."Rattlesnake Tail Swing" on "Unforgivable Blackness". By now I'm sure you get the point. The music is certainly given a different treatment on both albums but that doesn't change the fact that this music is not original to this soundtrack. I guess it has gotten to the point that Wynton and "his" are now repeating themselves. Noticeably missing from the liner notes are Stanley Crouch and his pontifications (which I actually enjoy), I guess he must have felt that he said it all the first time with "Reeltime". Musically this a very good album but I liked "Reeltime" better. What the hell be a fool and buy both...God knows I did.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Period Pieces, Not Interpretation Aug 29, 2006
By Bicycle Day
With four previously released tracks and two outtakes from the Rosewood, one can casually dismiss the score to the excellent Ken Burns documentary as being unforgivable; a major artist should create - not recreate - music.
But the tracks work as period pieces that Burns obviously wanted. Please remember that Marsalis had worked with Burns previously on Ken Burns's Jazz miniseries and Burns obviously knew what he needed for Unforgivable Blackness.
I wish the liner notes included information penned by Marsalis on why he chose the tracks and how he felt each piece fit the mood in the specific part of the documentary. The purchaser is left with piecing together the "picture" of music with the screen.
While the Miles Davis soundtrack of nearly 40 years ago is vastly superior musically, Marsalis does capture the feel of American popular music in the early 20th century.
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