Wynton Marsalis on “Later with Bob Costas” (1990)

[@isaiahpalmer2529]

This interview is gold, so many pearls of wisdom from Wynton. Also, the interviewer is great at his craft, doesn’t interrupt him but let’s him speak and ruminate.

[@stevedaddyman]

interesting point Marsalis makes about making more money than his dad when he and his brother were teenagers. He understands that money is not the true measure of one's worth. it's a core lesson lost on many.

[@fredjacksonjr.4422]

Thank you For helping to change the trajectory of “The Music and our culture in education” (Mr Wynton Marsalis)

[@pianoyam]

Thanks for posting these. Really enjoyed the A&E special a few weeks ago.

[@aleighland]

Amazing. Food for the soul!

[@LAOMUSICARTS]

"It takes a man to suffer Ignorance and smile!"

[@thenel2162]

so very true!

[@aarfeld]

The criticism of Wynton Marsalis, and his mentors Jazz critics Stanley Crouch and Albert Murray, is that, in their view, Jazz ends with the post Bop period. They dismiss Free jazz as a dead end cacaphony and Fusion as shallow, and both as being outside the Jazz tradition. Wynton is accused by his critics of turning jazz into a stagnant classical cannon, rather than an evolving living art form, which has always drawn from contemporary society and culture to constantly renew and revitalize itself.

[@Jazz313]

Keeping the flame of Jazz313KJMcphaul alive!

[@kevinhateswriting]

@15:52 WOW

[@Newname259]

The Malcom X of Jazz!!

[@IamUncledeuce]

I have read a lot of negative comments about Wynton Marsalils from a lot of sources (jazzers, critics etc...). For the life of me I can't figure it out either. Some are rude unqualified comments, but some come from well known jazz artists like Keith Jared and others. I have no idea what they are referring to unless it's jealousy. Pat Metheney gets on other jazzers cases too... It must be a character idiosyncracy or something. It's strange behaviour.

[@1asdfsa]

Maybe but there is a lot of interpreting and jealousy to. He says: "He likes jazz (personally) more than classics." They say: "Hey hates classics!" Typical communication error ... I think a kind of speaking/listening problem.

[@1asdfsa]

Sir you don't listened well, he said that he rapped on his own in his youth and he enjoyed it, you should see it as a kind of musical evolution.... if you have the chance to eat better than at MC'd you should took it. It depends on your personal standpoint but straight technicly, jazz is the more complexe music form. However his opinion about music is, I see him so far as a honest guy who demonstrates problems with our "humanity".... Postive for me. Cheers & Peace :)

[@ThEsHeEn117]

Wynton was right, the teens of the time did grow up to appreciate jazz, and you can see it from the hip hop instrumentals of the era (Pete Rock, Nice and Smooth, the list goes on). Unfortunately this was lost in the tidal wave of poo that was modern hit music.

[@somnambu2]

" you don't define jazz, jazz is just an attitude. if it's blues i play the blues, if it's funky i play funky.not one style. they may say you sold out and s* like that. that's what musicians say when they're lazy and don't want to learn different things about music. like the white man just says: "you cool, pick up an instrument, don't study, what ever you learned when you started thats all you know, stay there." people like that say that." miles davis

[@somnambu2]

i really respect wynton marsalis for playing with art blakey and so on. though i have to say it's amazingly ignorant comparing Hip Hop to macdonals. it's probably a general problem of the neo-traditionalists, respectivley their preception in more progrssiv circles, that their judging is based on not beeing interested in anything other than what they are dooing. don't get me wrong, but thats whats called xenophobia.

[@EF-fc4du]

Hip hop is worse than McDonald's. It's almost completely lacking in musicianship and creativity.

[@1asdfsa]

*...you should take it Sorry, my english is still way ahead of good :( Bad education system...

[@panamanian911]

What aarfeld said. He's forcing the jazz canon that he invented to be saved when it never wanted to be saved. It wanted to evolve. He's against fusion and free jazz the same way some were against Parker and Gillespie when they first turned up in the scene. For that reason, jazz is in a weird place now, where you have people who jumped on Wynton's band wagon and, in my opinion, jazz wasn't able to evolve properly, leaving Wynton's "cannon" there, as well as the new fusion stuff.

[@bobbye.wright4424]

sedda you really cant campare fusion and that other mess with with any form of earlier jazz whether its cool jazz bebop duke ellington count basie or louis armstrongs hot sevens fusion represents the stagnation of jazz winton is the rebirth in my oppinion