It always puzzles me that the Haydn is (was?) always part of Grade 8 for Bb trumpet and ARCM exam, yet it was written for, and played on an Eb by all the soloists! In other words, pro trumpet soloists have an easier time than students!

he's talking about a person who is 7 years into what is now a 44 year career (starting when Wynton joined Blakey)

He is a dirty dawg though, hitting Nicky Benedetti, what a fine piece of dago booty. 👊🏿🤙🏿😉

One thing we should remember is that Wynton is classically trained. Have any of you heard him perform Trumpet Concertos with Orchestra? In 1987, he didn't have too many albums to his name. He had just finished recording his Standard Time Vol. 1. Wynton has come A LOONG WAY since that album. I feel he has found his own voice and he has so many great albums to his credit including Live. Wynton is a pure jazz musician through and through.

Wynton is Wynton,he plays from the heart, everybody can't be a Miles Davis. 🤔

Miles wasn't the only musician to say this about Wynton Marsalis. When I think of great virtuoso trumpeters (Woody Shaw, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard and others who came later) they knew the history but were also interested in moving forward. Marsalis is almost like a classical musician playing jazz in the way it's "supposed to be played". One of the things I love about jazz is it is values individual expression and innovation. I don't really hesr that from Marsalis, in any environment, even playing Ornette 's material or playing with Clapton. Great technician, though; but while I admire his slickness, I don't find his music that interesting to me. (I grew up with a lot of 60s and 70s free jazz.)

The Charles Kuralt version was my favorite. It was simple, clean and unassuming. The current one is too frilled for my taste.

Highly overrated this man. Just my opinion.

Wynton since then has been able to play any style he wants, haha. I have heard him play three times and he is without a doubt the greatest trumpet player i've ever heard in person by a long shot. I never heard any of the old heads back in miles' day, so i'm sure i would be saying differently if i had. That being said, I would still put Wynton in my personal top 5 favorite trumpet players of all time still. Call it bias, but you can't deny how talented Wynton is and how good of a music educator he also is.

Also Davis did NOT like Wynton. Davis was being nice here.

Wasn’t it 2004 when the first one

Miles was full of crap. Wynton is the best there is, and that includes Miles.

The best live performance.

Chert baker....❤

It's the same in guitar. Lots of people know the scales and chords but they are boring to listen to. Music is like a language. Knowing how to spell doesn't make you a good writer.

when he says that marsalis is a 'good trumpet player',....you have to remember the miles rule..there are musicians, good musicians, and mothefuckers....

Miles was being nice here. 😅 I’ve always said that the Miles/Wynton juxtaposition was backwards: the old head was trying to move forward and innovate, while the young buck was stuck in the past. Yes, Wynton is a master trumpet player; possibly the most technically gifted jazz trumpet player ever. But it means more to me if you can play AND you changed music forever.

Wynton Marsalis = the Wiener Philarmoniker coming back on stage every single year for the New Year Concert and stating "listen, guys, you may all play waltz, galop, polka, and so on the way you want, drunk at Oktoberfest or clean, sober and well-dressed at Carnegie Hall, but WE set the standard you comply with or deviate from". You need Mason Bates and Peter Eötvös to bring change, but you also need people who reminds you of what the standard is.

This is accurate. But not everyone can be an innovator, or has a compelling unique voice in music, like Miles Davis. The same is true with Coltrane. Which tenor sax player sounds better than Coltrane, no matter how many transcriptions they have done.

May the creator bless his soul, he's one if not the greatest trumpet player ever, but I don't like it (black on black....) do it behind door! Food for thought! I love Wynton Marsalis, but he's no miles Davis, but an excellent trumpet play! 🥂🍷⚫️

Miles used to blow some bum notes sometimes. Wynton doesn’t. I prefer imperfection.

Wynton Marsalis is so reminiscent of Neil deGrasse Tyson in that smug pomposity and ultimate mediocrity of such self-proclaimed guardians. The so-called 'classical' music scene is a necrophile orgy of technique fetishism, empty virtuosity and disciplinary obsession substituting for art that, frankly, at this point it only appeals to hard working first generation immigrant children -- just one step above a spelling bee. Jazz is, correctly speaking, the classical music of black America, and Wynton is doing his very best to kill it just as dead with his conservatism as European 'classical' music is dead and buried in the banal elitism of difficulty for the sake of difficulty and superiority for the sake of superiority.

Still true.

Miles Davis = Mugen Wonton Marsalis = Jin Both excellent swordsmen with two completely different approaches.

He’s straight though, competition is in every field…. Give him his propers Miles, he was a great trumpet player…. 🤔🤣😂

Once Miles said something like this about Improvisation: i don't want to hear what you know, i want to hear what you don't know

37 years later: nope Wynton's still the same.

Yes classically trained is not jazz as maestro miles knows

Wint be playing too much with those NEADERTHAL'S!! This is what Miles would have said off camera, or 30 years priorto this taping he would have said it that way to anyone's face!

Marsalis is a master musician. Miles was an artist.

Davis is an incredible artist, but so is Wynton Marsalis, Davis said basically nothing in his answer?

Love them both but they are polar opposites. Wynton is carrying the torch for a style of music that is being pushed out by dj, rappers and techno ponces. Where has the melody, class and musicianship gone. You don't Even have to play an instrument to call yourself a musician these days. Love Wyntons candor when he is tapping his toes while he is listening to other play. Listening to other is a lost art these days.

Chet is the best

Well we know miles ain’t straight and that’s for sure.

It’s the difference between alert and Bonham

When Wynton heard this, he made sure Miles couldn’t get his heroin.

We knocked what he was really saying 😂😂

So Miles the "man" the dude with the horn that was heard around the world meets some square peg....who it just so happens has fashioned himself into THE baddest mother #uckin' trumpeter on the planet....

Do kids listen to jazz? Does it have an unironic future?

He never did develop his own style

Miles never sugarcoated nothing.

Pretty accurate.

Ouch

There’s a lot more “straight” jazz now than there ever was before. It’s just a different time

I would like to know Wyntons response to Miles critique of Wyntons musical approach…

Same thing with danny carey. Surgeon, no feel.

I felt similar to Miles, the first time I heard concert pianist Evgeny Kissin play. At first, Kissin's technical brilliance was undeniable to me, but I felt his playing lacked feeling. In the years since, Kissin's artistry came to match his technique. Alas, poor Wynton...

Lee Morgan , Woody Shaw

I used to be a big fan of Wynton when I was younger but now he bores me--it's like jazz is the universal solution for everything with him, 'You know, jazz will take your kids to school!', 'Jazz can pay your taxes!' 'If you're going through a divorce, listen to jazz and you'll be fine'....

Was that Slick talking about Nikolai Volkoff and The Iron Sheik? I don’t speak jive.