Hot House Flowers (album)

Hot House Flowers
Hot House Flowers
Studio album by Wynton Marsalis
Released	December 18, 1984
Recorded	May 30–31, 1984
Studio	RCA Studio A, New York
Genre	Jazz
Length	41:33
Label	Columbia
Producer	George Butler, Steven Epstein
Wynton Marsalis chronology

Hot House Flowers is an album by Wynton Marsalis that won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist in 1985.^[1] The album peaked at number 90 on the Billboard 200, number 53 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart, and number 1 on the Top Jazz Albums chart.^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Stardust"	Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish	4:07
2.	"Lazy Afternoon"	Jerome Moross, John Latouche	5:03
3.	"For All We Know"	John Frederick Coots, Sam M. Lewis	6:15
4.	"When You Wish upon a Star"	Ned Washington, Leigh Harline	4:40
5.	"Django"	John Lewis	4:52
6.	"Melancholia"	Duke Ellington	5:46
7.	"Hot House Flowers"	Wynton Marsalis	5:46
8.	"I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)"	Al J. Neiburg, Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds	5:41

Wynton Marsalis – trumpet
Branford Marsalis – soprano and tenor saxophones
Kent Jordan – alto flute
Paul McCandless - oboe, English horn
Andrew Schwartz - bassoon
Peter Gordon - French horn
Tony Price - tuba
Kenny Kirkland – piano
Ron Carter – double bass
Jeff "Tain" Watts – drums
Charles Libove (concertmaster), Ingrid Arden, Peter Dimitriades, Gayle Dixon, Guillermo Figueroa, Winterton Garvey, Harry Glickman, Regis Iandiorio, Ray Kunicki, Patmore Lewis, Diane Monroe, Louann Montesi - violins
Al Brown, Theodore Israel, Mitsue Takayama, Harry Zaratzian - violas
Seymour Barab, Richard Locker, Alvin McCall, Frederick Zlotkin - cellos
Bob Freedman - arranger, orchestrator and conductor

^ "Hot House Flowers". AllMusic. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
^ "Hot House Flowers: Charts & Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. U.S.: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 131. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 950. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.