Instead of focusing on jazz artists like Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton or Thelonious Monk, Wynton Marsalis takes on music inspired by painters such as Romare Bearden, Piet Mondrian and Stuart Davis. The result is the most ambitious sounding record by this group, and definitely the most outside. The horns are Coplandesque for “The Repose In All Things” before Sherman Irby bops along with his alto. Homer’s Blues, composed by Bill Frisell, has some Monkish piano by Dan Nimmer along with Marsalis’ buoyant horn, while Ellingtonian textures are felt on “Homer’s Waltz.” The most eyebrow lifting is “Twilight Sounds” that has Victor Goines’ bass clarinet doing a Dolphy dance and Marsalis bearing down hard. “Blue Twirl” isn’t far behind with some quirky section work and snappy solos by Ted Nash, Elliot Mason and Marsalis. Some Sunday preaching on “Beardon (The Block)” and some salsa on “Air, Earth, Fire, Water” cover just about every color on this wide rainbow of a palate. Marsalis still finds new worlds to conquer.