Show 8E The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday December 13 1987 Trumpet great Wynton Marsalis enjoying dual career as teacher By Karen McGrath Associated Press Writer Mass — Wynton CAMBRIDGE Marsalis snappy dresser controversial trumpeter and young stood among eight awed Harnear-legen- d vard University students and displayed the difficult art of blowing into a trumpet while simultaneously taking in more air through the nose After more than 100 continuous seconds of rotary breathing Marsalis rested while the students looked at each other in disbelief Then he explained the technique “It’s just a gimmick" he said “I do that in jazz so I can get applause” The difficult maneuver came at the end of a day for Marsalis who is increasingly scheduling lectures and working with students when he is not performing jazz tunes or recording classical albums The latest album for the Grammy winner is “Standard fusion music on the today’s jazz charts He has said many of today’s artists including the legendary Miles Davis and Marsalis’ brother Branford Marsalis who tours with the reck star Sting have d abandoned mainstream jazz for trendier music At Harvard he argued with a student who said today's jazz artists simply are evolving the music “In order for the tradition to be maintained you have to know what it Marsalis told the disis” a fired-uquieted Harvard student “If you think light bulbs are dead just because Thomas Edison isn’t around p you're wrong” Marsalis believes jazz is an “im- portant expression of the 20th centu- ry black experience in America the nobility of the race put into sound” He has indicated he wants to teach young people that jazz can be their own personal form of expression And during the next month Marsalis will visit several junior high and high schools in Los Angeles and perform a benefit concert there for the city’s Music Society before traveling to Washington for another benefit concert for the National Black Association scholarship fund 14-ho- Time” “I have an enthusiasm for teaching I can't explain" said Marsalis in his trademark tapered suit and glasses after conducting a recent master class at Harvard as part of the university’s Learning From Performers Program “I’m happy to do it because I'm always learning more” he said “I had so many free lessons when I was young This is kind of payment back” His lessons have included one from trumpeter Alvin Batiste Marsalis’ father jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis who conducted a music workshop at Harvard the day before his son made sure his children grew up in a musical environment in New Orleans Of six boys in the Marsalis family four are musicians Wynton Marsalis began studying classical trumpet when he was 12 As a child at home he listened to his father and developed jazz heroes: Art Tatum Louis Armstrong Charlie Parker Duke Ellington Max Roach Charles Mingus Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane At 17 Marsalis spent a summer at the Tanglewood Music Center a program for young musicians run by the He Boston ' Symphony Orchestra then spent time at the Juilliard School in New York where he joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers His involvement with the group led to a contract with CBS Records and a deal touring with keyboard player Herbie Hancock In 1982 CBS issued Marsalis’ debut album “Wynton Marsalis” which Hancock produced It was dubbed album of the year by several jazz publications Marsalis eventually became the first musician to win Grammy awards for jazz and classical performances in the same year However Marsalis has said he’s ashamed of his performance with Blakey “I put on my old records with Art Blakey and hang my head in shame as I listen to the confidence I had in disrespecting the bandstand of that great man” Marsalis told down beat magazine “Every time I see Art Blakey now I apologize then thank him for tolerating such an aberration and continuing to remind me that I was not playing much of anything other than the horn itself — and very little of that come to think of it” and Marsalis hates the free-forabstract jazz of the 1960s as much as that wire-rimme- d THE SEASON Christmas bells are ringing at Symphony Hall Enjoy holiday favorites and the cheery voices of local choirs 1 J 7 RESERVED SEATING CONCERTS: 7 pm December IS & 19 Tickets: S8 adults S4 children S24 family OPEN SEATING CONCERTS: 2 pm December 19 & 20 and 7 pm December 21 Tickets: S4 adults S2 UtmSymphony §5?iKIL838 Sponsored in purl b aqrarttfriw the Salt LuU On Am Omm il 5 iS Csri Of T coX ® tttamm hm MMTswmmm COLUMBIA SrtftCO BASStTTt WRJBd)£$' TSoiilSoitti (Sonfaoffl 5” BEARS Limit 10 per coupon MOVABLE ARMS & LEGS WITH HANGER Set inert 99C & Reg The Utah Opera present’s Pucci- Messiah Cassette $1998 Compact Disc $3495 Createst Hits of Christmas Cassette $1198 Ta Boheme’ ni's “La Boheme” for its 10th anniversary production in January in the Capitol Theatre — the same opera it e 533-640- children $12 family Silent Night Cassette $598 Compact Disc $1699 White Christmas Cassette $598 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