Congratulations to Branford and the Branford Marsalis Quartet for their 2017 ECHO Jazz Awards nominations! The Quartet has been nominated in the category of International Ensemble of the Year and...
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Jazz NewsDecember 06, 2016
Congratulations to the Branford Marsalis Quartet with...
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Classical NewsOctober 28, 2016The Advocate
Branford Marsalis has faced the question a few times along his career: which music is harder to play, jazz or classical?
You'd think the answer would be jazz, where notes aren't...
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Classical NewsOctober 28, 2016The Morning Call
Although the symphonic heavy-hitter in the opening concert of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra’s 2016-2017 classical season last weekend at Miller Symphony Hall was undoubtedly Beethoven...
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Classical NewsOctober 14, 2016Bethlehem Press
The 2016-17 season-opening Allentown Symphony Orchestra classical music concerts will be long-remembered for a Lehigh Valley world premiere by a well-known musician, band leader and composer.
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Classical NewsOctober 08, 2016The Morning Call
When Branford Marsalis performed Villa Lobos’ Fantasia for Saxophone and Orchestra for his first time back in 2008, you’d think it would have been a cakewalk for the multiple Grammy-...
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Jazz NewsOctober 06, 2016
The Branford Marsalis Quartet with special guest Kurt Elling...
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Jazz NewsAugust 04, 2016The Guardian
Branford Marsalis has mastered most tricks of the sax-player’s trade – traditional song-playing lyricism, an advanced post-Coltrane technique (lately coupled with a classical one), and...
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Jazz NewsJuly 25, 2016Jazz Times
How did one of the best and most important jazz bands around—saxophonist Branford Marsalis, pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Justin Faulkner—come to unite with...
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