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Marsalis Protege Turns Mentor to Jazz Trumpeter's Kid Brother
Two decades ago, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis discovered a young blind piano wizard named Marcus Roberts, took him under his wing and nurtured him to jazz stardom. Now Roberts, 44, is returning the favor, playing mentor to Wynton's kid brother, Jason, a 31-year-old percussionist. Roberts, Marsalis and bassist Roland Guerin make up the Marcus Roberts Trio. (They ...
Marcus Roberts: The Truth is Spoken Here
by Marc Minsker
Wynton Marsalis is one of the most talented trumpet players on the scene today. Unfortunately, he's also one of the most egotistical musicians out there. As an unofficial “spokesman for jazz," Wynton has helped to promote jazz throughout the world, but he's personally done very little to innovate the art form. This is unfortunate because jazz ...
Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music
by Mark Corroto
The first family of jazz, the Marsalis of New Orleans, have seemingly been in the eye of a musical hurricane for the past twenty years. With the news that Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis had severed their ties with Sony music, comes the announcement that they have formed the independent label Marsalis Music. ...
Wynton Marsalis Septet: The Marciac Suite
by C. Michael Bailey
Finally...The End. Like a lemming, I dutifully purchased each volume of Wynton Marsalis’ “Swinging Into The 21st Century”, collecting the little stickers and sticking them on the collection card, and finally, mailing that card in. In ten short weeks (two weeks longer than promised), the final installment of Marsalis’ jazz lovefest arrived on my doorstep.
Marcus Roberts: Blues For The New Millennium
by AAJ Staff
An old saying claims that the acorn never falls far from the tree. In the world of jazz, that doesn't always hold, but more often than not, it lands at least within shouting distance. Take the case of Marcus Roberts for example. As Wynton Marsalis's pianist of choice for much of the 80's and into the ...
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