Learn About the Inventor of Jazz with Wynton Marsalis | Amanpour and Company 

It isn't often that you get to see a talent like this. Wynton is a genius.

Wynton is a living legend, a modern day jazz ambassador! He would make Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie proud.

He’s a National Treasure... Far More Than Just Talent

I could listen to Wynton all day long.

Great interview. I didn't know that Wynton came to jazz as an adult after playing other genres of music. I did know of his admiration of Louis Armstrong.

The more I hear Wynton play and talk the more I realize that he may be one of the greatest musicians that has ever lived.

We are so lucky to have this man as an American. Especially now. Thank you, Mr. Marsalis.

Wynton the best

Musically, socially, and personally, Wynton Marsalis is one of the greatest human beings to ever walk the planet. I’d give just about anything to sit and have a conversation with him. He is so inspiring in so many ways. Just... wow.

I came on a similar journey to wynton. I started trumpet 50 years ago because of Louis Armstrong. I took a detour in classical and contemporary. Now only gospel and jazz. I got souled out!

Great Wynton. Such a wise and intelligent man .!

Solid character in the deepest sense.

Him and his whole family are a celebration of all that is good with the human soul! ❤️

what a great honor to attend 2 of his live concerts in Europe July 2nd :)

Who thumbs down this? Lol Dear god, the 60secs or so about Louis is enough to educate even the dullest of us

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Masterful yet so gangster with knowledge many have no idea how much of a leader he is... fighting for the ppl.

Excellent conversation! So enlightening, Thank you.

I am so psyched to see Winton!!!

Amazing !!!!!

Wynton is the Truth...I just love Wynton

I’m glad I’m not alone on feeling how self-destructive rap is. It IS the “new minstrel show”. It reinforces the worst of a culture which is worthy of so much more.

Merci Mr Marsalis

love it!

inspiration to me in such a huge way.

An absolute hero and wonderful musician.

I really dig an aged Wynton. Very humble and friendly guy nowadays (or, so it seems).

O mais completo da atualidade!!!

This is the best interview Wynton ever gave. I just love the standards he's done on record, but with his dad Ellis? Who I was lucky enough to share a word with in Manchester? Buy it. Standard Time 3. Two geniuses doing their thing.

Brilliant and righteous man

No one knows who INVENTED JAZZ. He was not alive in the 1800s & never HEARD Buddy Bolden play. So, he delivers his BELIEF, nothing more. 🙏🏼

Intriguing video!

I always thought that Jelly Roll Morton invented Jazz; I learned something new today. How long after Bolden did Morton make his mark? Love Wynton; love him, his music 🎶 and talent.

Legend

Amanpour can't see anything without the race-glasses on. Wynton is the trumpet player of our time.

And so on, and so forth... 💪

very emotional

This is so good. I’ve always been sad when tremendously talented folks like Eddie Murphy make movies that reinforce stereotypes

Well, I hope Walter will write a book about Wynton. I hope Wynton will write a Musical: "Bolden". And I hope they both will start to talk about Louis Moreau Gottschalk, to whom (at the age of 13) Chopin said, "Give me your hand, my child; I predict that you will become the king of pianists." And I hope anyone who reads this, will read "Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong" by Terry Teachout. Pops was influenced by Mahler, Verdi and Wagner. So, it's no joke that he played everything "Modern". Just ask Branford.

Wynton needs to play the Cornet alot more!

He's a music encyclopedia...

He makes the impossible look easy.

I've always respected, and even admired Wynton, even while being completely aware of the hatred heaped on him by certain sectors of the music community. To me (and apparently many of the commentors here) his contribution to the art (and many other subjects) far out-weighs what may be fairly accurate criticisms of his 'outspoken' public commentary.

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can anyone tell me the model of this cornet?

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There’s nothing this man can’t do

Bolden title of the movie ?

How is the movie called

Kinda weird seeing wonton play some other horn than his monette

Wynton, I met you live once a long time ago and frankly was impressed with your musicianship but NOT you personality. I found you frankly opinionated , almost self-righteous and completely judgmental in your attitudes . This interview is certainly encouraging . I think I probably had rose-colored glasses. Still impressive technique hopefully warmer soul. Thank you. Love the band. Best wishes in making jazz the music of America not just an essential element of Black Culture. Thank you for sharing your real feelings.

Most of the early Jazz musicians were Creoles and hence catholic. So I tend to think the Sanctfied church drew on some of the same sources rather then being a great influence on early Jazz.

Amanpour is such a dunce - Wynton, by contrast - is the best Trumpet player I've ever heard.

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Agree with all he says but his opinion on the statues.

Louis Armstrong Miles Davis Wynton Marsalis Are the trumpets!

Thank GOD Louis Armstrong switched from Cornet to Bb Trumpet in 1928

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It Would be great if Mr . W. MARSALIS could have the Gut to take a clear Stand on Civil rights and Human rights and equality in General. Armstrong, M. Davis , Dizzy and Duke , did took stands at One point in their lives, that almost Cost them biasedly their career. But their Statements were balance justified and dignified.

He even speaks melodically. It falls out of him. WM is the greatest.

47 yr old white boy from Pennsylvania, i just returned from new Orleans, when i went around lee circle i remembered vaguely that they had removed that trader from up there, bigotry and racism are uninformed and ignorant

Huh? Buddy Bolden INVENTED jazz? The title of this video is a little bit nuts, but you know that, right? Bolden predates recording technology. Nobody can say he invented jazz. Yes, Wynton is an icon. You can’t argue with his knowledge of early New Orleans trumpet styles. His demonstration of it is super impressive, mind-blowing in fact. But this pretending/imagining he was there, and speaking to us authoritatively about Bolden’s inspirations and influences really pushes the envelope of believability. At times it seems he is just describing the movie. At other times it seems like he’s offering us historical fact (which is, frankly, disingenuous and kind of weird). As a lifelong lover of and student of jazz, I would like to state that there is no way one could divine these kinds of finely-tuned details about Bolden’s playing through some pipeline of anecdotes or knowledge inferred through listening to recordings from Armstrong vis-a-vis King Oliver, even if you ARE the supremely brilliant Wynton Marsalis. Please change the title of this video. It does a tremendous disservice to the many many thousands of people who came from all over the world, willingly or through slavery, and found themselves thrown together in New Orleans, in the Unitied States of America, the only place on the globe where amazing African rhythms and tonalities would interact with crusty but beautiful old European harmonies, to make something completely unique to all of humankind, and become America’s single most significant contribution to the arts, Jazz. The invention of jazz is so much bigger than just one person. Good day.

Many people,particularly in music colleges,think that John Coltrane and Miles Davis invented Jazz.

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Not to be persnickety, but the Carnival of Venice ‘variation’ actually isn’t one. The tune just stays exactly the same with twiddly asides.

I suspect the ‘re-imagination’ doesn’t have much to do with the reality. Especially the ‘revelatory’ practice session. But no matter, jazz genius goes mad is a good story true or not.

taking down statues is an act of Great cowardice....it's saying, it's pretending "this never happened"...or should not have happened... but it did and it needs to be seen and remembered

Odd Bolden invented jazz as claimed here when he never played a tune with the word jazz or no band he ever lead or played in used the word jazz either. I read Jelly Roll Morton did the first jazz orchestrations and he claimed he invented jazz but again he did not have a band with the word jazz in it until the 1920’s. The earliest jazz band I could find that actually used the word jazz and had the word jazz in tunes they played was the Original Dixieland Jazz Band of New Orleans who made the first jazz record in 1917. Also Bolden never made any recordings so how do you know what he played?

It's so amazing that Marsalis knows what went on the the early 1900s! He looks so young for being 140 years old. And he knows what people back then were thinking and feeling! Plus, no recording of Bolden exists so the interpretation that Marsalis plays ( late 1920s style in addition to 1940s New Orleans street beat) is not even close to any recording of others from that era. He's pretty much full of it. Mr. Marsalis is a vary talented musician. But when talks he's ignorant and inaccurate. And when he talks about race he's very tiresome.

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There is no single “inventor” of jazz it was a music that developed organically through a combination between blues and sounds of the slaves from west Africa that developed in to early black american music with the instrumental technique of Europe and American roots Basically street musicians and classically trained musicians combined their skills in New Orleans in places like Congo square and it transformed up the Mississippi But there is no one inventor that’s incredibly inaccurate and naive

To say someone invented something comes from a desire to personalize and simplify something that is very complex and involves many people and maybe even animals. What about aboriginals in africa listening to bird and animal sounds. Where did african rhythms come from? African rhythms came across by men playing gourd and if you add some strings -early banjo like instruments. If you add European instrumentation to this mix you get rhythmic music like Ragtime- which though rhythmic is based on a march. But music like blues- where does the earlier banjo music and later guitar fit in? What about all the people involved with inventing musical instruments? You didn't have Jazz until you have the instruments to play it. Beethoven played some pretty funky stuff in his last piano Sonata Opus 111. Some say he was of dark complexion= hey what gives?

Inventor of Jazz? Beethoven.

Trumpet player Nick La Rocca,and Jelly Roll Morton both claimed that they "invented" jazz ! Nobody knows what Buddy Bolden sounded like. For all we know he might have been a terrible player.

It's funny how Africa Americans think they invented all forms of music, when they are using instruments that were invented by east west Europeaners. The saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax who also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn and saxtuba and was used long before they ever came to America. It's strange in America how African Americans in Hollywood media give no credit to the people who really invented the music that they adopted, you could even call it cultural appropriation if you want to use that term.