On 5/24/994 Wynton Marsalis sat down with John Goberman for a taping of "Backstage at Lincoln Center" a companion program to "Live from Lincoln Center."
Wynton Marsalis, my musical hero, since the days of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. He's a quintessence of music in general and jazz in particular. He is not only a brilliant jazz artist, but the man is erudite. He shares his erudition with young and old, with fellow artists, his audiences and us the general listenership of jazz music. The eloquence with which he delivers his discussion, discourse or musical lectures is great. Kudos to this musical genius! I'm overcharged with awe, by this reservoir of knowledge. Theo Kgapola {Benoni}
"Jazz music is a celebration of individuals negotiating their identity through a harmonic form." What a brilliant characterization. Love listening to Wynton speak.
A couple of good things about the interviewer are that he asked Wynton some basic question that many viewers might actually like to know, and he drew him out to discuss in some detail his conception of Jazz and his vision for programing at Lincoln Center, as conceived by himself and his mentors: critics Stanley Crouch and Albert Murray. The views of these three men have been controversial so, whether one agrees with them or, whether one agrees with them in part, it's good to get his side of it.
This wkend i have spent a lot of time watching and listening to Wynton and Branford, I have to say have been inspired and blown away at the same time. Is that possible?? Thanks for your channel
Thank you. Thank you Wynton Marsalis. Happy New Year. Hope all is well with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in 2021. Stay healthy. I decided to watch this interview again. I think of it as succinct and poignant. Love hearing you chant and clap - to me, that's music too, and a teaching aid. Back at work, someone decided to provide books on a optional basis for the group to share. It's a information technology office, and I decided to share a handful of books including "Moving to Higher Ground", and a link to this interview. By the way, before college, I played in wind ensembles, and playing together live is not a replicable experience. I understand it in music. Keep up the good works. 1 la le 2 la le 3 ta te ta 4.
Every singel interview I have ever seen with great jazzmusicians there is always someone who says the interviewer is an idiot..! Perhaps the interviewers just don't know enough about jazz to communicate at the interviewees level...
Louis and Duke were popular musicians, so were the classical musicians of the past. The fact that these musics have moved away from this is probably why they’re no longer popular.
