Branford Marsalis

Black Codes (From the Underground)

Wynton Marsalis · 1985

Kenny Kirkland

Kenny Kirkland · 1991

Black Codes (From the Underground)Black Codes (From the Underground)Wynton Marsalis · 1985 (1985) was a manifesto for the neo-bop movement. The Branford MarsalisBranford Marsalisブランフォード・マルサリス brothers, Kenny KirklandKenny KirklandKenny Kirkland · 1991's piano, Jeff Jeff "Tain" WattsJeff "Tain" Wattsジェフ・テイン・ワッツ's drums — this band devoted itself entirely to reviving bebop's language in the present tense.

Kenny Kirkland

Kenny Kirkland · 1991

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis · 1982

Black Codes (From the Underground)

Wynton Marsalis · 1985

Random Abstract

Branford Marsalis · 1988

When Kenny Kirkland died suddenly in 1998, a reporter told Branford Marsalis he was 'reconsidering Wynton's band.' Branford cut him off: the pianist had been a name in the small print while alive — and only in death was he worth a second look?

— Statement stmt-branford-marsalis-on-kenny-kirkland-3

Album of the Year

Art Blakey · 1981

Black Codes (From the Underground)

Wynton Marsalis · 1985

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis · 1982

Random Abstract

Branford Marsalis · 1988

The saxophonist on Art Blakey's 1981 album Album of the Year was an unnamed twenty-year-old: Branford Marsalis. The Marsalis family's later fame didn't exist yet — his career started inside Blakey's band, not the other way around.

Kenny Kirkland

Kenny Kirkland · 1991

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis · 1982

Black Codes (From the Underground)

Wynton Marsalis · 1985

BOB A Palindrome

Robert Hurst · 2013

In 1982, when Wynton asked his brother Branford who he knew for a new band, the answer was: call Kenny Kirkland, and put Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums. Watts was an unknown Berklee student at the time; that single recommendation set the entire rhythm section of Wynton's 1980s quartet and put both men on the map.

— Statement stmt-branford-marsalis-on-kenny-kirkland

Album of the Year

Art Blakey · 1981

Keystone 3

Art Blakey · 1982

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers is remembered as a finishing school for young players, but Branford Marsalis recalls Blakey as the man who first showed him how weak his ballad playing was. Before he became one of the genre's leading saxophonists, he was simply a rookie who couldn't yet handle a ballad.

— Statement stmt-branford-marsalis-on-art-blakey

Full concert of the post-Kirkland Branford MarsalisBranford Marsalisブランフォード・マルサリス Quartet with Joey CalderazzoJoey Calderazzoジョーイ・カルデラッツォ on piano at the 1999 North Sea Jazz Festival.

— Branford Marsalis Quartet - North Sea Jazz, Prime Video / Stingray Qello, 1999