David Krauss, principal trumpet of the Metropolitan Opera, has a chat with his sometime teacher Wynton Marsalis, rtistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Here’s one of the tracks they talk about:
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This is the first time I’ve heard a recipient of one of Wynton’s horns tell that story. One of his bandmates said in an interview once that early in his career, when he had a lot of trumpets, he gave most of them away to younger players. This guy has a dedication to the development of young musicians that’s almost beyond belief. Usually it’s not quite this concrete, but it’s still there.
He used to play a Monette.Does he still use it? I bought one,35 years ago,because i was very much into Charlie Schlueter and the BSO trumpet section….however,i had problems with its sheer weight,as much as i liked the sound.
Back in those days — this is the 80s mostly — he’d play Bachs. He still plays a Monette but it’s a much lighter model than he used to have.
When Wynton first came out of Juilliard he was doing half classical and half jazz. He was absolutely scary as a classical musician. When he decided to go full jazz it was a loss for the classical world. The album with Kathleen Battle is something I still listen to. After all the fame through the years he is absolutely the same guy to talk with that he was at the beginning of his career. Truly a unique person and artist.
Agreed. A great album done when he couldn’t have been much more than 20 years old.
Wynton Marsalis has been active in promoting classical and jazz music. His oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. I really love it. I’ve downloaded many of his songs with DumpMedia Spotify Music Converter to my USB and connected it to my car so that I could listen to them while I’m driving home after one day of working. That really gives me a while of peaceful mind.