We have more faith in the music than the people at major labels have. I'm always thinking of ways to enhance the music and the way we think about it.
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You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.Branford Marsalis
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I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.
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When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
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Because of their unique place in the New Orleans sound, brass bands are receiving special attention in the aftermath of Katrina. For instance, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, one of the musician-brothers of the city's First Family of Jazz, will use a recording company he started three years ago to aid brass band musicians left jobless by the storm. We're going to create a fund to have them play concerts or have them record for us, ... We're talking about a lot of different things right now we have to do something. A lot of the guys I'm talking about include the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the Rebirth Brass Band, the Tuxedo Brass Band. There are all these different groups. It's a matter of finding all these musicians scattered across the South.
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One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
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