Jan 17 - Jan 20, 2019
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
NEA Jazz Master Branford Marsalis is, as the Los Angeles Times dubbed him, “the highest echelon of jazz tenor saxophonists.” As the eldest musical sibling in jazz’s most famous contemporary clan, he parlayed his formative experiences in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and his brother Wynton’s band into simultaneous careers as a performer, educator, composer, label owner, and bandleader with nearly 30 albums to his name.
An uncompromising artist and three-time GRAMMY winner, Marsalis’ insatiable desire to expand horizons has found him performing with the New York Philharmonic, embracing hip hop influences with his Buckshot LaFonque project, leading the house band on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and working in the pop realm with Sting and Bruce Hornsby. He won a 2010 Drama Desk Award for his contribution to the Broadway production of August Willson’s Fences, and recorded his acclaimed 2013 live solo recital, In My Solitude, at Grace Cathedral as part of the 30th San Francisco Jazz Festival. But Marsalis is best known as the leader of this extraordinary quartet, a group that plays dauntingly intricate and breathtakingly dynamic music. A powerfully kinetic sound that entails navigating odd meters and eye-blink tempo shifts, it’s an approach captured on the band's new OKeh Records album The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul.
Marsalis is best known as the leader of this extraordinary quartet, a group that plays dauntingly intricate and breathtakingly dynamic music.
Marsalis stands as one of the most imposing tenor and soprano saxophonists in jazz today, the comprehensive nature of his virtuosity matched by the substantive quality of his tunes.
Chicago Tribune
Marsalis stands as one of the most imposing tenor and soprano saxophonists in jazz today, the comprehensive nature of his virtuosity matched by the substantive quality of his tunes.
Chicago Tribune
Personnel
Branford Marsalis saxophones
Joey Calderazzo piano
Eric Revis bass
Justin Faulkner drums
A knockout: hard nosed and hyperacute, tradition minded but modern, defined by the high-wire grace of his working band.
The New York Times
Personnel
Branford Marsalis saxophones
Joey Calderazzo piano
Eric Revis bass
Justin Faulkner drums
A knockout: hard nosed and hyperacute, tradition minded but modern, defined by the high-wire grace of his working band.
The New York Times
Watch & Listen
Branford Marsalis
Teo
Branford Marsalis
Whiplash
Branford Marsalis
Teo
Branford Marsalis
Whiplash
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