Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue

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,{{cite magazine |last=Milkowki |first=Bill |date=June 2013 |title=Carrington Gets Provocative |magazine=Down Beat |volume=80 |issue=6 |page=36 }} which was released in 1963.{{cite magazine |date=February 9, 1963 |title=Album Reviews |magazine=Billboard |page=28}} Her core trio for the recording included pianist Gerald Clayton and bassist Christian McBride. 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.{{cite magazine |last=Nemeyer |first=Eric |date=February 2013 |title=Terri Lyne Carrington |magazine=Jazz Inside |volume=4 |issue=7 |pages=4–8}}

All but three of the tracks were written by Ellington. Carrington's "Grass Roots" is a blues, her "No Boxes (Nor Words)" is a post-bop piece, while Clayton's ballad "Cut Off" alludes to Ellington's "Solitude". On "Rem Blues/Music", Shea Rose and Herbie Hancock read Ellington's poem "Music".

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Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue was released by Concord Jazz on February 25, 2013.{{cite web |last=Spicer |first=Daniel |date=2013 |title=Terri Lyne Carrington Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue Review |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/nxwx/ |website=bbc.co.uk |accessdate=October 25, 2020}} It won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.{{cite web |title=Grammy Awards Winners & Nominees for Best Instrumental Jazz Album |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/winners-nominees/171 |website=grammy.com |accessdate=October 25, 2020}}

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. 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".{{cite magazine |last=Tamarkin |first=Jeff |date=May 8, 2013 |title=Terri Lyne Carrington: Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue |url=https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/terri-lyne-carrington-money-jungle-provocative-in-blue/ |magazine=JazzTimes |accessdate=October 25, 2020}} 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".

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

Source:

• Terri Lyne Carrington – drums
• Gerald Clayton – piano
• Christian McBride – bass
• Clark Terry – trumpet, vocals (track 2)
• Robin Eubanks – trombone (tracks 2, 9)
• Antonio Hart – flute (tracks 2, 9)
• Tia Fuller – flute (track 2), alto saxophone (track 9)
• Nir Felder – guitar (track 3)
• Arturo Stable – percussion (track 8)
• Lizz Wright – vocals (track 3)
• Shea Rose – vocals (track 11)
• Herbie Hancock – vocals (track 11)

Source:{{cite magazine |last=Robinson |first=Chris |date=March 2013 |title=Terri Lyne Carrington – Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue |magazine=Down Beat |volume=80 |issue=3 |page=74 }}

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