The Marciac Suite is an album by the American musician Wynton Marsalis, released in 2000.[1][2] He is credited with his Septet.[3] Marsalis recorded the music for the annual Jazz in Marciac festival.[4] The album was originally included as a bonus disc with the Swinging into the 21st series, released in 1999.[5]
The Boston Globe called the album "a more natural and less historically self-conscious approach to improvising on Marsalis's part."[16]The New York Times wrote that it "has gorgeous compositional ideas and thick, glowing harmonies."[17]The San Diego Union-Tribune concluded that "no single part stands out from the others, but the entire composition captures the warmth Marsalis obviously feels for the tiny village with a love of jazz."[18] The Los Angeles Times determined that Marsalis's trumpet playing is "filled with a pure, lighthearted, hard-swinging joie de vivre that is not always present in his more 'serious' works."[9] The Calgary Herald opined that The Marciac Suite "sometimes dabbles in the horn-heavy chaos of Marsalis' native New Orleans, though that often sounds calculated here."[13]
AllMusic deemed the album "the most artistically successful of Marsalis' original works in his 1999 series."[10]The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD considered it "one of Wynton's happiest and most sheerly enjoyable sets."[14]
