Wynton Marsalis, Born: 1961, Trumpeter/Composer/Bandleader/Educator

Wynton Marsalis' official website: ~wyntonmarsalis.com

Quotes » Benny Carter

"He is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced? How many have passed to the sound of his music? It's been said that a man should not be forced to live up to his art. Benny Carter is one of the rare instances when we wonder whether the great art that a man has created can live up to him."

─Wynton Marsalis 
(excerpt from remarks at Kennedy Center Honors program, 12/3/96)

Source: ~www.bennycarter.com

Videos» Wynton Marsalis: Portrait of Duke Ellington

Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra play the Duke Ellington tune "Portrait of Louis Armstrong", live at Lincoln Center. (found on YouTube)

Books» To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road [Paperback]

"To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road"

Authors: Wynton Marsalis, Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
Publication Date: November 8, 2005

Description
In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life. Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,” 

Marsalis passes on wisdom gained from experience, addressed to a young musician coming up–and to any of us at any stage of life. He writes that having humility is a way to continue to grow, to listen, and to learn; that patience is necessary for developing both technical proficiency and your own art rather than an imitation of someone else’s; and that rules are indispensable because “freedom lives in structure.”

Wynton Marsalis, Born: 1961,Trumpeter/Composer/Bandleader/Educator

Wynton Marsalis official website: ~wyntonmarsalis.com