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Jazz Musician of the Day: Branford Marsalis
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Branford Marsalis' birthday today!
Growing up in the rich environment of New Orleans as the oldest son of pianist and educator Ellis Marsalis, Branford was drawn to music along with siblings Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason. His first instrument, the clarinet, gave way to the alto and then the tenor and soprano saxophones when the teenage Branford began working in local bands. A growing fascination with jazz as he entered college gave him the basic tools ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Delfeayo Marsalis
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Delfeayo Marsalis' birthday today!
Delfeayo Marsalis is one of the top trombonists, composers and producers in jazz today. Known for his “technical excellence, inventive mind and frequent touches of humor…” (Leonard Feather, Los Angeles Times), he is “…one of the best, most imaginative and musical of the trombonists of his generation.” (Philip Elwood, San Francisco Examiner.) In January 2011, Delfeayo and the Marsalis family (father Ellis and brothers Branford, Wynton and Jason) earned the nation’s ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Branford Marsalis
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Branford Marsalis' birthday today!
Growing up in the rich environment of New Orleans as the oldest son of pianist and educator Ellis Marsalis, Branford was drawn to music along with siblings Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason. His first instrument, the clarinet, gave way to the alto and then the tenor and soprano saxophones when the teenage Branford began working in local bands. A growing fascination with jazz as he entered college gave him the basic tools ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Delfeayo Marsalis
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Delfeayo Marsalis' birthday today!
Delfeayo Marsalis is one of the top trombonists, composers and producers in jazz today. Known for his “technical excellence, inventive mind and frequent touches of humor…” (Leonard Feather, Los Angeles Times), he is “…one of the best, most imaginative and musical of the trombonists of his generation.” (Philip Elwood, San Francisco Examiner.) In January 2011, Delfeayo and the Marsalis family (father Ellis and brothers Branford, Wynton and Jason) earned the nation’s ...
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Interview: Marshall Rogers on Shorty
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Ninety-eight years ago today, Milton Rajonsky was born in Great Barrington, Mass. Milton would later become better known as Shorty Rogers, a trumpeter and flugelhornist and composer-arranger who was one of West Coast jazz's primary architects in the early 1950s. He also pioneered a brassy cool sound for TV shows and his music inspired Henry Mancini. Rogers died in 1994 at age 70. Among Rogers's milestone albums are Modern Sounds : Shorty Rogers And His Giants (1951), Cool & Crazy ...
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Art Pepper and Warne Marsh
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
There are great jazz musicians. And then there are great pairings of great jazz musicians. Some of these pairings you know, some may be less familiar. A duo in the latter category was West Coast alto saxophonist Art Pepper and New York tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh. On the recordings by these two players, you get two artists who personified a cooler, drier sound on the reed instrument. By cooler and drier, I mean smooth, no vibrato, relaxed and behind the ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Delfeayo Marsalis
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Delfeayo Marsalis' birthday today!
Delfeayo Marsalis is one of the top trombonists, composers and producers in jazz today. Known for his “technical excellence, inventive mind and frequent touches of humor…” (Leonard Feather, Los Angeles Times), he is “…one of the best, most imaginative and musical of the trombonists of his generation.” (Philip Elwood, San Francisco Examiner.) In January 2011, Delfeayo and the Marsalis family (father Ellis and brothers Branford, Wynton and Jason) earned the nation’s ...
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Joy Marshall in Holland, 1965
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Earlier this week, I posted on jazz-pop vocalist Joy Marshall, who moved to London in 1962, married, divorced and remained there until her untimely death in 1968. David Chilver in London sent along a link to the following clip of Marshall in the Netherlands in 1965 on Dutch television. First we hear Yesterdays, a solo by Rob Madna on piano backed by the Frans de Kok Orchestra. Then Marshall sings It's All Right With Me. She's backed by the orchestra ...
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The Sad Story of Joy Marshall
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Throughout the 1960s, American singer Joy Marshall was an accomplished jazz-pop vocalist who was and still is virtually unknown in the U.S. Her anonymity here has much to do with her relocating to the London in June 1962, at age 25. Marshall said she never considered herself a jazz singer in interviews, though her pop recordings clearly have a jazz feel. Sort of a combination of Mary Wells and Carmen McRae. Everything she took on cooked. Smitten by the States, ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Branford Marsalis
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Branford Marsalis' birthday today!
Growing up in the rich environment of New Orleans as the oldest son of pianist and educator Ellis Marsalis, Branford was drawn to music along with siblings Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason. His first instrument, the clarinet, gave way to the alto and then the tenor and soprano saxophones when the teenage Branford began working in local bands. A growing fascination with jazz as he entered college gave him the basic tools ...
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