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Miles Davis is onstage, but the young man in the dark blue Versace jacket couldn't care less. He is concentrating on the one thing other than a trumpet mouthpiece that is capable of riveting his attention to the point of near obsession: a basketball hoop. For some reason, there is a basket in the open backstage area of New York's Jones Beach Theater, and Wynton Marsalis is pumping balls into the net from every angle. Suddenly, he dribbles out 30 ft. from the goal and announces, "I bet $100 I can sink one from here." A stagehand snaps...
...close, almost symbiotic relationship between Wynton and Branford marked their childhood and continued into their young manhood. Wynton, extraordinarily disciplined and driven by an insatiable desire to excel, was a straight-A student who starred in Little League baseball, practiced his trumpet three hours a day and won every music competition he ever entered. Branford, older by 13 months, was an average student, a self-described "spaz" in sports and a naturally talented musician who hated to practice. Yet both brothers deny that there was any rivalry between them. "Our personalities were formed to each other," says Wynton...
...brass quintet. Composer and conductor Gunther Schuller vividly remembers the time Wynton showed up at New York City's Wellington Hotel in the summer of 1978 to audition for the Tanglewood Music Center, of which Schuller was artistic director. After impressing the judges with his virtuosity on the Haydn trumpet concerto, Wynton offered to play Bach's extremely difficult Second Brandenburg Concerto. "While he was warming up," says Schuller, "he concealed himself behind a pillar, so I leaned over to see what he was doing. He was pumping the valves and talking to his trumpet, saying...
...HARGROVE: DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH (Novus). Watch out, Wynton! This 20-year- old trumpet phenomenon from Waco, Texas, is nipping at your heels with a horn full of soul and fire. A well-crafted album, featuring penetrating solo work from alto-saxman Antonio Hart and three strong compositions by pianist Geoffrey Keezer...
...last thing the region's rulers want is to hand Saddam a larger platform from which to trumpet his populist message of Arab unity, vengeance and pride. Most Middle Eastern countries are autocratic regimes that rule by vague historic claim or tight control of their armed forces, not by popular consent. The hereditary ruling clans of the gulf states are particularly vulnerable to charges that they preside over artificial entities with little more than their oil wealth to justify their existence. Few men in the street have mourned the demise of Kuwait's al-Sabah family, a clan noted...