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Wynton Marsalis swings easily from Monk to Mozart
Miles Davis may have heard it coming, or surely sensed it. Down in New Orleans in the mid-'60s, he was saying hello to a widely regarded jazz pianist, Ellis Marsalis, who was playing behind Al Hirt. Marsalis had a little boy of six named Wynton at home, and...
Advice heard, advice unheeded. No advance was forthcoming, but Hirt passed along a horn to Wynton, who made his first public appearance the following year, blowing the Marine Hymn during a recital at the Xavier Junior School of Music. Over the next decade, following a few years of preadolescent musical...
Now, one year later, Marsalis has issued a new jazz album, Think of One (title track courtesy Thelonious Monk), and, concurrently, a piece of classical virtuosity, three trumpet concertos (Haydn, Leopold Mozart and Hummel). And Marsalis just seems to be warming up. Remarked the classical trumpet virtuoso Maurice André...
There may never have been a soloist who passed so freely over the closely guarded borders between jazz and classical. Marsalis, who has just turned 22, makes the usual declaration at customs ("I'm just a musician, I just play music"), but though his predisposition may be toward jazz...