Jeff Simon of the Buffalo News reviews Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra’s new Make America Great Again album. Simon writes, ‘In his newest Jazz Orchestra extravaganza, he takes off with some of the most sardonic political hoopdedoo since Charles Mingus’ ‘Fables of Faubus’ gave us antic musical commentary on Arkansas’ segregationist governor Orville Faubus on Mingus’ 1959 masterpiece ‘Mingus Ah Um.’ On the title composition of this new disc, narrator Wendell Pierce tells us Trump’s “this catchy slogan” is ‘certainly not’ a ‘pragmatic proposition in the world today.’ Not in this ‘melting pot of diversity fighting a juggernaut of adversity.'”
Read the full review at the Buffalo News.
Scott Frock, Professional Trumpet Player 