To a Young Jazz Musician
Letters from the Road
$32.46
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2005
Summary
The great Wynton Marsalis, America’s foremost jazz musician and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, offers intimate advice on jazz and life to a hypothetical young jazz musician.
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 wis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812974201 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0812974204 |
| Author: | Wynton Marsalis, Selwyn Seyfu Hinds |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2005 |
| Weight: | 133g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 132mm x 9mm |
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About The Author
Wynton Marsalis
WYNTON MARSALIS was born in New Orleans, and went on to study at the Juilliard School of Music. He is now the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has won nine Grammy awards in both jazz and classical categories. In 1987, Marsalis’s oratorio on slavery and freedom, Blood on the Fields, became the first and, to date, only jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize in music.
SELWYN SEYFU HINDS is the former editor in chief of The Source magazine and is currently the executive editor of Savoy magazine. He is the author of the memoir Gunshots in My Cook-Up- Bits and Bites from a Hip-Hop Caribbean Life, and his articles have appeared in Vanity Fair, Spin, Vibe, and other publications.
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