Quotes by Branford Marsalis

5 quotes

Statements and quotes by Branford Marsalis from interviews and other sources.

Call Kenny Kirkland, man. Jeff Tain Watts should be the drummer.

Recalling what he told his brother Wynton in 1982, when Wynton was forming his first band and asked whom he knew.

See Kenny and Tain, you couldn't get them to rehearse. If you called a rehearsal, they wouldn't even show up.

On making the Kenny Kirkland memorial album Requiem, describing how neither man would ever turn up to rehearse.

So, now Kenny's dead y'all wanna rethink the band. You guys are idiots, man.

His reply to a jazz writer who, at the Requiem session just after Kirkland's death, said critics were starting to rethink the Wynton Marsalis band.

I mean we didn't practice. Wynton was the only guy that really practiced.

Listening back to the Wynton Marsalis quintet's Black Codes (From the Underground) and judging how unprepared the band had been.

He was the first guy to make me understand how bad I was on ballads.

On what Art Blakey taught him during his time in the Jazz Messengers.