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The first, full-length biography of this masterful trumpeter, composer, and founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Synopsis
In the first, full-length biography of this masterful trumpeter, composer, and founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Leslie Gourse reveals the private side of one of the most talented and controversial figures in music today. Written with the full participation of Wynton Marsalis, and based on hours of interviews with him, his family, his friends.
From his youth in New Orleans to New York through his training at Juilliard, his first band work with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Gourse discusses the founding of Jazz at Lincoln Center and the controversies surrounding Marsalis' stewardship of that institution.