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Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue
Studio album by
Terri Lyne Carrington
ReleasedFebruary 25, 2013
GenreJazz
LabelConcord Jazz
Terri Lyne Carrington chronology
The Mosaic Project
(2011) 		Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue
(2013) 		The Mosaic Project: Love and Soul
(2015)

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.

Recording and music

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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]

Release and reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Down Beat[5]
The Guardian[6]

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]

Track listing

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

  1. "Money Jungle" – 6:21
  2. "Fleurette Africain" – 5:56
  3. "Backward Country Boy Blues" – 6:00
  4. "Very Special" – 4:11
  5. "Wig Wise" – 6:17
  6. "Grass Roots" (Terri Lyne Carrington) – 4:38
  7. "No Boxes (Nor Words)" (Carrington) – 5:37
  8. "A Little Max (Parfait)" – 5:01
  9. "Switch Blade" – 6:28
  10. "Cut Off" (Gerald Clayton) – 5:08
  11. "Rem Blues/Music" – 6:44

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Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Milkowki, Bill (June 2013). "Carrington Gets Provocative". Down Beat. Vol. 80, no. 6. p. 36.
  2. ^ "Album Reviews". Billboard. February 9, 1963. p. 28.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Jurek, Thom. "Terri Lyne Carrington – Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue". AllMusic. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  4. ^ Nemeyer, Eric (February 2013). "Terri Lyne Carrington". Jazz Inside. Vol. 4, no. 7. pp. 4–8.
  5. ^ a b c Robinson, Chris (March 2013). "Terri Lyne Carrington – Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue". Down Beat. Vol. 80, no. 3. p. 74.
  6. ^ Fordham, John (March 7, 2013). "Terri Lyne Carrington: Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue – Review". The Guardian. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  7. ^ Spicer, Daniel (2013). "Terri Lyne Carrington Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue Review". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  8. ^ "Grammy Awards Winners & Nominees for Best Instrumental Jazz Album". grammy.com. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  9. ^ Tamarkin, Jeff (May 8, 2013). "Terri Lyne Carrington: Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue". JazzTimes. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
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