Delfeayo Marsalis

http://preshallfoundation.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/john-michael-bradford-wins-the-seeking-satchmo-competition/ John Michael Bradford Wins the Seeking Satchmo Competition This past weekend, August 3rd through 5th New Orleans saw the 12th annualSatchmo Summerfest, held at the U.S. Mint Museum. The festival featured a wide variety of traditional jazz, contemporary jazz, brass bands and children’s… (read more)

http://visualstpaul.blogspot.com/2012/07/delfeayo-marsalis-jazz-fest-2.html VISUAL ST. PAUL MONDAY, JULY 02, 2012 Delfeayo Marsalis-Jazz Fest #2 Delfeayo Marsalis is one of the top trombonists, composers and producers in jazz today.  The crowd that turned out to see and hear him last Friday night were not disappointed.  Like the rest of his family, he's a multi-talented musician.  In January 2011,… (read more)

http://www.smooth-jazz.de/Woodrow/Marsalis/SweetThunder.htm In one stroke of brilliance, master trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis pays tribute to both Duke Ellington and William Shakespeare. SuchSweet Thunder (Troubador Jass Records, 2011) recaptures and reinterprets Ellington’s homage to The Bard of Avon. Although the collection is an attempt to bring classics of the past into the present, these interpretations… (read more)

http://jazzhallelujah.wordpress.com/ Delfeayo Marsalis has been talking about Duke and Shak likely ever since he could talk, certainly for as long as I’ve known him which is pushing close to 20 years now.  I owe him long overdue public thanks because it was when I was a young MFA student spending all my loan checks on as many sets of live Elvin Jones as I could get to and writing a screenplay… (read more)