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  • Coolin’ in with Wynton Marsalis

    Posted on June 10th, 1989 in Profiles & Interviews

    Wynton Marsalis, a musician without whom it would have been hard to imagine last year or even the whole past decade, explains what jazz is - and isn’t, why under no circumstances you can call Sting a jazz musician, and why Miles Davis is the most tragic figure in Western music of the 20th century, why no one today wants to study the music of Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane and, last but not least, why Wynton himself is not planning to record another classical album in the near future   Keep reading »