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Son of Ellis and brother of Wynton, Branford Marsalis comes from a family of jazz greats. He is as well-trained and experienced as any saxophone player today, but unlike the rest of his family, he does not believe that "jazz" music is determined by whether or not it swings...
On "The Tonight Show", Marsalis's hipness is unduly restrained; he usually wears a suit and plays for about five seconds before they fade him out for a commercial. At the Roxy last week, playing for almost two-and-a-half house in a Knicks jersey and high-tops, things...
For Buckshot LeFonque, Marsalis has concocted a veritable musical melting pot: a funk bassist, an electric guitarist, a latin percussionist, two keyboardists (one on Fender Rhodes, the other piano), a jazz horn section (trombone, trumpet and Marsalis on alto and tenor saxophones), a hip-hop drummer and a rap DJ...
One tune that did come off very well involved a vinyl recording of Maya Angelou reading her Pulitzer Prize-winning poem, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." DJ Apollo sampled and scratched Angelou's voice over a relaxed beat one verse at a time, each one followed by emphatic...
Also noteworthy was a rendition of "Breakfast at Denny's," a track from the CD that featured DJ Apollo and Marsalis trading riffs.