A good book will keep me up at night, and I’m happy to miss some sleep. Same with a movie. Having KZfaq and Branford interviews… it’s equally as addictive. He’s made of music. His conversational style keeps me up. And I’m happy to miss sleep to listen to it.

Whenever i listen to Branford talks, I always gain something else other than Music itself. Good stuffs

I could listening to Branford all day, whether his music or his words.

Both Wynton and Branford are so brilliant in explaining the insides of jazz concepts and such creative forces.

I love this man

I have listened to this 3x's. Each time it kicks my butt with wisdom and insight.

When Branford says "Giant Steps is math, not music" I consider that a compliment to Coltrane.

That was an excellent talk about music. I got a lot outta of it his wisdom, and will listen to this again. Thanks for all the imparting your wisdom Branford.

Wow in a world where noone can speak straight it is a relief to hear him

"The circle of mediocrity" lol, my favourite quote.

Happy 60th Birthday Branford Marsalis

Really great interview, funny, entertaining and informative.

"Listen Without Expectation of a Payoff" That's why I love Branford. An encyclopaedic cosmopolitan sage.

Branford keeping it real. Great informative interview. I 💚 VT!

Although he's a little pompous, it would be so fun to share a pitcher of beer with Branford and talk all things music.

Fascinating to listen to...excellent insight and great sense of humor.

He is special ! Luv I’m !

Wonderful interview!

oh the jewels of knowledge, wisdom and understanding you can obtain from a Branford Marsalis interview! Good work Flynn Center

Thanks alot

Darkstar!!!!!

👏👏👏👏

True artists are neber too Advanced in time, they are the products of their time, but listeners, the public are still living in the past.. behind their time..

Wisdom from a great musician. I love all of Branford's music. Thinking about that solo on Roxanne. So lyrical, so cool, so artistic, so sophisticated👌

Great conversation, back to the basics ideas and the feeling of this is right and I want to follow this path.

Your birth-day? Pls keep using your gift...blow on, Mr. Marsalis, be healthy, calm, cook...

Maybe you’ll come back to inside/outside and play a little like everyone thought when you showed up….🎵🎶🙏🏽

Very astute guy and funny without trying.

hahahaha..Rod stewart butchering standards. Yessss. Love it.

Great conversation!

Church yo❤

I wanna play for musicians, because musicians are people too.

BM has it worked out - what to do after the possibilities of innovation from the Louis Armstrong approach to music got used up by the 1960s. He spells it out articulately here, and thus enables his urge to do that grand approach as the inevitable conservative he is, rather than embracing music as an expanding universe, as Boulez put it. BM seems safe, financially secure. As befits a conservative worth his salt.

This was amazing

Was it Warne Marsh they were talking about?

Do you guys know the exact title of the book Branford talks about around 35:12 ?

39:00, 51:00

Hip

....and failed to do so..(himself included)

Wow! Giant Steps is Math not music!

Too much wisdom , let’s me know I’m on track and to continue to not follow the norm

That’s cause traditional jazz bass solos are boring and just not good. If I play a bass solo after whoever in whatever band there ain’t gonna be no drop…

All good "in theory". The problem. 4 guys all listening and improvising as was the case with Branford's group when i saw them in Frankfurt 10 or so years ago, playing way over the heads of most listeners. Not enough of the familiar for we smaller musical minds to latch onto. I was somewhere between nervous, given the amount and complexity of information that was assaulting my brain, and bored out of my skull. Didn't enjoy it at all. The real challenge is to take that formula he talked about and make it accessible. I mean, I play piano, I know the tunes, I understand what they are shooting for, and I am "lost" from beat one to the end, and my tastes don't enjoy the "staying over the edge of outside" harmonies for an entire performance. How does Johann Q. Public deal with it? They don't. They can't. I think the democratic style of improv and support for the soloist doesnt work. It's all a matter of degrees, the band always has made choices about what to play where, how much to give and how to much to refrain, but with Marsalis all the way back to Bill Evans I believe this style of jazz, where it's not the band playing time and letting the soloist do most of the improv, killed what was left of a jazz audience. I dont go to many concerts because there#s too much of this. The balance is not right. You almost have to be as good as Marsalis to compute what he and his group is playing, and enjoy it. I'm not, and I can't. And the groove isn't even good enough anymore so that i can "just enjoy the swing" or groove. It has the same vibe at all the "straight ahead" NY city sound stuff out of the 70's, 80's that i didnt and still don't like. A lot of mediocre original tunes, very similar "sound " and harmonies. everybody blowing at once. Basically, the new stuff they played all day on KJAZ and KCSM. blah.