Wynton Marsalis
Posted on 05/23/2018 9:23:37 AM PDT by rktman
Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz musician Wynton Marsalis said that the racially charged and profanity-laced creations in rap and hip-hop are "more damaging" to the culture and to black Americans "than a statue of Robert E. Lee."
During a recent interview with the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart, Marsalis -- the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1997 -- said: “My words are not that powerful. I started saying in 1985 I don’t think we should have a music talking about niggers and bitches and hoes. It had no impact. I’ve said it. I’ve repeated it. I still repeat it."
"To me that’s more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee," said Marsalis, who plays the trumpet and received the National Medal of Arts in 2005.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
However, one of my all time favorite versions of this song is done by his brother: Branford Marsalis: The Ruby and The Pearl.
Boy, do I love that version!
Wasn’t his point at all
XM’s classic jazz channel has made me appreciate jazz very much.
When OTR is running stuff I don’t want to listen to, the jazz channel usually does.I’ll leave it there for a while.
I’ll have to look at that.
Thanks!
That's his brother, Branford.
See my post about his brother at #21...I like their music. Good God, I can’t see how they could even listen to Rap and Hip-Hop with the kind of music the Marsalis family is known for putting out, but...that is just me.
He’s like a Jazz God....................
Wynton done gone all Uncle Tom on the Left.
My guess is he doesn’t think Robert E. Lee’s statue is damaging either. But he gets his audience’s view of it. So fantastic to have him speak out on this issue.
I’m not one much for jazz, but he has two classical trumpet CDs that are unbelievably beautiful. This one in particular:
https://www.amazon.com/Haydn-Hummel-L-Mozart-Concertos/dp/B001LR0VBO/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1527094464&sr=8-12&keywords=wynton+marsalis+cd
I concur. I don't think we can 'outlaw' this speech but we can all come together to do what we can to discourage it's use in the arts and elsewhere.
I knew I liked him for more than his trumpet playing.
I’ve been watching over and over again a video of him playing “Sheik of Araby” in 2009 and it is quintessential American jazz. Just fantastic.
Thank you for the FYI on this. I just started teaching two new sections of Music Appreciation online this week. I have placed the Post link in both classes (with the necessary language warnings, etc.; the boss will be OK with the Post but probably would not be with CNS). It will be interesting how the students, most of whom are nurses going for their BSN, react.
Speaking out of turn...
Marsalis has been on the scene way before "rap", way before any of these "rap artists" were born, actually studied music theory, and thus becomes a world class trumpeter instead of parroting cursed-laced "rhymes", again, way before most of these "artists" were born.
So given that, he is now supposed to get on his hands and knees and acquiesce to these charlatans without having any opinion on what he's hearing as "music"? You've got to be joking.
Not a big jazz fan but I’d listen to Wynton Marsalis LONG before I’d listen to rap crap. He is a master at his craft.
He did some TV interviews back in the late 1980s, and he decried Rap in those interviews. Wynton is a truly gifted musician, and he was an inspiration to my fellow trumpet and coronet players in my junior high band days.
Good on him. Always thought he was a cut above.
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