Branford Marsalis Quartet: Belonging review – a virtuosic take on Keith Jarrett’s seminal 70s album

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The American sax star follows in the footsteps of Jan Garbarek on...

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Great jazz composers are legion. But the list of great jazz composers whose work gets played by other artists with any regularity? That’s a far more exclusive club.

So when a jazz...

The house was full for the Friday-night late set, with the quartet opening in vamp mode and an extended interpretation of ...

Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, one of the foremost jazz artists of our time and a pacesetting creative force in the music for more than four decades, has signed to Blue Note Records, the...

Marsalis will serve as arranger and orchestrator for the Louis Armstrong bio-musical. 

The music team has been announced for the upcoming Broadway bow of “A Wonderful World....

In the summer of 2021, Branford Marsalis performed in Kalamazoo for a Symphony summer performance at the Gilmore Car Museum. So began a multi-year residency project that would include the creation...

Rustin Soundtrack Available Now!

With freedom on the line, Bayard Rustin took command. Now it’s time to tell his story. RUSTIN, with music by Branford Marsalis, starring Colman Domingo...

The Boston Globe / W. Anthony Sheppard

The piece that most clearly demonstrated Williams’s full stylistic range was “Escapades,” a three-movement orchestral score drawing...