Wynton Marsalis " Django" (1984)

From his 1984 album "Hot House Flowers". Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American trumpeter and composer. He is among the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era and is also a well-known instrumentalist in classical music. He is also the Musical Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. A compilation of his series of inspirational letters to a young jazz musical student, named Anthony, has been published as To a Young Jazz Musician.

Marsalis has made his reputation with a combination of skill in jazz performance and composition, a sophisticated yet earthy and hip personal style, an impressive knowledge of jazz and jazz history, and skill as a virtuoso classical trumpeter. As of 2006, he has made sixteen classical and more than thirty jazz recordings, has been awarded nine Grammys between the genres, and has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his epic oratorio, "Blood on the Fields", which is on the subject of slavery. The first time it has been awarded for a jazz recording.

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[JFrostz]

1 person is a bass clarinet player..

[Apopholis]

One thing that strikes me as odd about this is that despite Wynton's apparent dislike of Miles Davis, to me, there are a few obvious hints at Sketches of Spain.

[aammirr]

...uninspiredly boring !

[weskoki]

Is this Wynton playing? Hm...not his best record i gess

[brinham6]

I understand Wynton's point of view on this. I found the late music of Miles inaccessible...my shortcoming, I guess. But I hear a great deal of the earlier Miles in Wynton's work.

[xDiArtsx]

@Apopholis I think Wynton hated the fact that Miles started doing Fusion stuff, and Wynton really dint think that was the music that someone of Miles caliber should be playing. So I think he though it was degrading to Jazz.

[SuperYouGerT]

@Apopholis he used to listen to miles a lot. When asked in an interview when he was younger he said that he listened to old miles, but I think when miles started saying he was full of sh** wynton kinda disliked him, but still, miles was an influence.

[TheFantasticCorndog]

@Apopholis Yeah, it's sketches of spain+tonality 

[BlueinGreen2]

@Apopholis Good point, I definitely hear this too. Although I didn't think Wynton disliked Miles; I just thought it was true the other way round. Surely it's difficult for any modern trumpeter NOT to be influenced by Miles?

[reddwarf1980]

This was my first Wynton jazz album, got it on casette and played the heck out of it. This is my favorite track off it, timeless!