Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalisis an American saxophonist, composer and bandleader. While primarily known for his work in jazz as the leader of the Branford Marsalis Quartet, he also performs frequently as a soloist with classical ensembles and has led the group Buckshot LeFonque...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSaxophonist
Date of Birth26 August 1960
CityBreaux Bridge, LA
CountryUnited States of America
kids america people
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
america musical asking
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
voice homework findings
Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.
We all played bad before we played good.
new-orleans talking new-day
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.
moving people trying
If youre going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If youre going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation thats based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, youre down to about 10 people or so.
music jazz students
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.
music song jobs
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
song couple stupid
We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.
justice world sentences
There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.
rip cat player
The way to learn the language is to rip off other players. As Benny Golson told me, "We all start off sounding like other cats. And gradually, a lick here or there,we start to sound like ourselves. But it takes a long time to do so..." That'swhat he told me, and it worked for me.
mean titles identification
When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
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One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
piano people tough-times
The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.