Word: delfeayo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...celebration will ultimately involve about 400 student performers, and will feature such luminaries as Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West '74, record producer and musician Delfeayo Marsalis, and poet-activist Sonia Sanchez...
Marsalis, 34, comes from a musical family and a musical city. His father Ellis is a pianist and educator; his elder brother Branford is a saxophonist; and one of his younger brothers, Delfeayo, is a trombone player. In New Orleans, a city as overflowing with jazz players as a bubbling pot of gumbo, Wynton was an early standout, a musical prodigy. As a teenager he played with drummer Art Blakey. Before Marsalis turned 22, he recorded a classical album that won a Grammy...
Those who have heard him play would say that Shedroff already knows the sax. He played with the Harvard Jazz Band until his junior year, and since then has performed in New Orleans and San Antonio with Delfeayo Marsalis, younger brother of the better known Branford and Winton. Shedroff's name pops up often in New England jazz circles, and he has jammed with the best of Boston...
...York are "looking pretty nebulous." But he's sure of one thing: "the idea is to play music." He has found an apartment in Brooklyn, which he will share with other musicians, but for now no steady gig or salary awaits him-- only a loose agreement with Delfeayo to perform with the band in some upcoming performances...
...Springsteen, and she soon generated reams of press clips. Wynton is the first to admit that Columbia's salesmanship had a lot to do with his popular success, but claims not to take it seriously. "It has nothing to do with artistic merit or substance," he says. Adds brother Delfeayo, who has produced more than a dozen albums for Columbia and other labels: "Sure, Wynton has the hype. He created the hype: he was cute and articulate, and he could play his ass off. But people shouldn't confuse the hype with the music...