Wynton

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At eighteen, Wynton began attending The Juilliard School where he was soon recognized as one of the most impressive young trumpeters at the institution. He also performed as a pit musician in Sweeney Todd, and played with the Brooklyn Philharmonic that summer, he joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. This recording was made soon after. In the summer of 81, he took a leave of absence from Blakey to join the Herbie Hancock Quartet and go on the "road". This move resulted in considerable praise from the jazz press for Wynton Marsalis here and throughout the world. For Wynton, that tradition began with his birth into the musical Marsalis family on October 18, 1961, in New Orleans. His father Ellis Marsalis, is a widely respected jazz pianist, composer, and educator whose admirers are as diverse as Dizzy Gillepsie, Hale Smith, Ornette Coleman, and Ed Blackwell. In his hometown, young Wynton got a lot of quality experience in marching bands, jazz bands, funk bands, and orchestras with European repertoires. He'd been given his first trumpet buy Al Hirt when he was six years old but didn't begin to take it seriously until he was twelve.

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Recorded at Bubba’s at Fort Lauderdale, Florida on October 11, 1980, following the summer Wynton joined Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. Session musicians: Drums: Art Blakey; Piano: Jimmy Williams; Bass: Charles Fambrough; Sax: Billy Pierce; Trumpet: Wynton Marsalis; Piano: Ellis Marsalis(Jody). This recording is one in a series by world renowned artists done expressly for the Lionel Hampton inspired Who’s Who In Jazz label

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