Branford performs Monday, April 30 in St. Petersburg, Russia as part of International Jazz Day's All-Star Global Concert. The concert, to be held at the famed Mariinsky Theatre and will be...

I was lucky to attend one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen last Saturday night at UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance at Royce Hall...The mind-blowing concert this past...

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...

Congratulations to the Branford Marsalis Quartet with...

The Branford Marsalis Quartet with special guest Kurt Elling...

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...

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...

Upward Spiral - New Album from the Branford Marsalis Quartet with special guest Kurt Elling

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As explained in the notes on the Branford Marsalis Quartet’s album Upward Spiral (featuring Kurt Elling), this is truly a collaborative effort. Everything about the album, from the...

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To one extent or another, jazz has always maintained a discriminatory dividing line between vocalists and instrumentalists. Instead of being viewed as equals—artists on par with...