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May 2025

Volume 92, No. 5

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Branford Marsalis

Tackles Keith Jarrett

By Phillip Lutz

Saxophonist Branford Marsalis has a slew of projects he’s working on, but few undertakings have been weightier than his latest album, Belonging. His much-anticipated debut on the Blue Note label is a full cover version of Keith Jarrett’s 1974 recording of the same name. As one master commenting on another’s work, it reveals possibilities in the music that the original — a debut itself, of Jarrett’s European Quartet — doesn’t.