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Diligence. The most celebrated figure of new jazz speaks his mind: on journalists, money and soul… and Monk, Duke and Clifford
It’s beginning to get like a smokescreen with all this stuff. I wanted to hear a trumpeter, playing jazz and classical music, a great trumpeter, and these days I Seem to be getting a man who talks up a fearsome polemical storm and has his playing shuttled off to some sideline where critics can take it or leave it. Keep reading »
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Angry Young Man With A Horn
Wynton Marsalis leans forward, peers through his glasses and says with his usual fervor, “People actually want to discuss music with me. Me! Their knowledge of music is so limited that I don’t understand how they even think they can converse with me in my own idiom That’s like me wanting to discuss the space program with a rocket scientist. That kind of arrogance is foreign to me.” Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis: Smashing The Stereotypes
Wynton Marsalis is a taste maker beyond his influence as a musician. You see it in his life style, his personal appearance and his influence on young people, particularly young black people. Keep reading »
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Hounding Out The Jazz Traitors
In his foreword to the new edition of The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Jazz, trumpeter WYNTON MARSALIS invokes the spirit of Louis Armstrong and lambasts the “primitives” and “jazz rockers” who have betrayed the truth and the tradition of the music. Keep reading »
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A Gentlemen With a Mean Horn
Wynton Marsalis fingers a cornet. America’s wunderkind from New Orleans is a modest, mellow and articulate fellow, and he’ll be 25 next month. What’s more, his fifth CBS jazz record, “J Mood,” is in the stores, and he’s in the mood to chat. Keep reading »
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YOUNG MEN with the golden horns
Adept technicians or brilliant young masters? Cold fish or hot cats? RICHARD COOK suggests that the Marsalis brothers are more than the latest thing in tired old Jazz music. Keep reading »
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Wynton vs Herbie. The Purist and Crossbreader Duke It Out
You can see how it was supposed to work. Take The Brilliant Young Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, who has taken some time out from his precocious and dramatic ascent to denounce the commercial moves of certain of his elders, and sit him down Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis, Young Lion of Jazz
A year ago, even if people hadn’t heard the prodigious trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, they’d probably heard of him. Then, on last year’s Grammy awards, when Marsalis became the first instrumentalist to win “best soloist” awards in both jazz and classical categories, they also heard from him. Keep reading »
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The Horn Of Plenty Of Wynton Marsalis
It wasn’t Ellis Marsalis’ idea to push bis boys into music. However, he wanted to give them the opportunity to play if they were so inclined. At 7, his son Branford was already playing piano and clarinet. However, his younger son Wynton, who was 6 at that time, was more Interested in playing games than music. Keep reading »
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Marsalis keeps jazz, classical apart
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is the chameleon of the music world, standing astride the charts in both classical and jazz idioms. But don’t get the idea that he plays a classical engagement and then goes off to jam in a jazz club. Keep reading »