{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = Braggtown | type = studio | artist = Branford Marsalis Quartet | cover = Braggtown.jpg | alt = | released = September 12, 2006 | recorded = March 13–16, 2006, <br>Hayti Heritage Center, Durham, NC<ref name="bragging rights">{{cite journal|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522005306/http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/485019.html|url=http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/485019.html|archivedate=22 May 2008|first=David|last=Menconi|date=September 11, 2006|title=Branford's bragging rights|journal=The News & Observer}}</ref> | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 74:00 | label = Marsalis Music | producer = Branford Marsalis | prev_title = A Love Supreme Live | prev_year = 2004 | next_title = American Spectrum | next_year = 2008 }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r850950|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref> |rev2 = Music Box |rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>[http://www.musicbox-online.com/reviews-2007/branfordmarsalis-braggtown.html Music Box review]</ref> |rev3 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=948}}</ref> }} '''''Braggtown''''' is an album released by The Branford Marsalis Quartet in 2006.
The album, following the 2004 Grammy-nominated ''Eternal'', draws upon a world of inspirations, including John Coltrane, a 17th-century English composer, an American Indian Warrior and a Japanese horror film. Marsalis chose some of the new songs from the band's current repertoire, with an emphasis on what he describes as "that kind of high-energy music we've been playing in live performance."
This album was named after Braggtown, a neighborhood located in the northeastern corner of Durham, North Carolina, as Marsalis has been a resident of the Durham area for the past few years.
The cover of the album shows the four musicians in a locker room in the baseball stadium Durham Bulls Athletic Park.<ref name = "bragging rights" />
== Track listing == # "Jack Baker" (Branford Marsalis) - 14:12 # "Hope" (Joey Calderazzo) - 11:01 # "Fate" (Marsalis) - 08:24 # "Blakzilla" (Jeff "Tain" Watts) - 12:40 # "O Solitude" (Henry Purcell) - 07:48 # "Sir Roderick, the Aloof" (Marsalis) - 05:45 # "Black Elk Speaks" (Eric Revis) - 14:10
== Personnel == * Branford Marsalis – saxophones * Joey Calderazzo – piano * Eric Revis – bass * Jeff "Tain" Watts – drums
== Charts == * 2006 Top Jazz Albums # 14
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070203044231/http://www.branfordmarsalis.com/branford/pbuild/linkbuilder.cfm?selection=dn9.9.2 ''Braggtown'' at BranfordMarsalis.com]
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