Back on the tracks after parting with his former record company, 27-year-old trumpeter Marlon Jordan is in top form as he dramatizes a warm session of seven mostly-Coltrane tunes on his new Arabesque disc, Marlon’s Mode.
Since his last CBS album, Undaunted, was released in 1993, Jordan has switched labels, recovered from a serious auto accident, had a second daughter, and moved his family from Southern Ohio to hometown New Orleans, where he’s now teaching at a private all-girl school and participating in the lively local jazz scene.
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