Three-time Grammy Award®-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis and leading jazz pianist Joey Calderazzo will perform music from their recent CD collaboration, “Songs of Mirth and Melancholy,” Thursday, Feb. 14, at the Thomasville Center for the Arts Auditorium.
The concert is presented by the Thomasville Entertainment Foundation, now celebrating its 75th anniversary.
As the musical director of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” from 1992 to 1995, Marsalis became known to a wide audience. Today he’s considered one of the jazz world's most revered artists, continually expanding his skills and influence as an instrumentalist, composer and the head of Marsalis Music, the label he founded in 2002.
In 2011 the National Endowment for the Arts conferred the prestigious Jazz Masters Fellowship on the Marsalis family of composer-musicians to recognize their indelible mark on this American art form. The New York Times called Ellis Marsalis and his four sons, including Branford, “jazz’s most storied living dynasty.”
Still, Branford Marsalis has forged a unique identity within the family, born of an insatiable appetite for musical innovation and unexpected collaborations.
Leader of one of the finest jazz quartets today, Marsalis “moonlights” as a guest soloist with the Boston Pops and with classical ensembles, including such acclaimed orchestras as the Chicago, Detroit, Düsseldorf and North Carolina Symphonies.
His solo performances with the New York Philharmonic during its 2010-11 season demonstrated his versatility and prowess. Reviewers took note of the poise, supple tone and “swagger” that Marsalis lent to the ensemble.
Marsalis’s compositions for the Broadway musical revival of “Fences” earned him a Tony Award® nomination for Best Original Score Written for the Theatre and a 2010 Drama Desk Award® for Outstanding Music in a Play. Following this success, Marsalis signed on to score the 2011 Broadway premiere of “The Mountaintop” starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett.
He has even dabbled in acting with roles in “Throw Mama from the Train” and “School Daze.”
Not only has Marsalis performed alongside the great names in jazz—Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins—his expansive interests led to collaborations with diverse artists such as Sting, the Grateful Dead and Bruce Hornsby.
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