Wynton Marsalis – Black Codes (From The Underground) (VG+/VG+) – LP, AU 1985

Black Codes (From The Underground) is an LP by Wynton Marsalis from 1985 released on the CBS label.

About this album

Black Codes (From The Underground) is a landmark 1985 statement that helped establish Wynton Marsalis as a major force in modern jazz. The album balances fierce post-bop energy with carefully shaped writing, bringing together modal ideas, blues feeling and intricate ensemble interplay. Featuring Marsalis with a hard-driving band, it shows his command of trumpet technique and his commitment to jazz tradition without sounding nostalgic. Released during a period when jazz was again debating its direction, the record became one of the defining documents of the new acoustic revival and remains widely regarded as a high point in Marsalis’s early catalogue.