Music Redeems

Marsalis Family
Label: Marsalis Music
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Audio CD
Release date:24th August 2010

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Track Listing

1. Introducing...the Marsalis Family
2. Donna Lee
3. Wynton and Branford Speak
4. Monkey Puzzle
5. After
6. Syndrome
7. Sweet Georgia Brown
8. Harry Speaks
9. Teo
10. The Man and The Ocean
11. At The House In Da Pocket
12. The 2nd Line

Product Description

One of the most famous of New Orleans' multigenerational jazz families, it is extraordinarily rare for the Marsalis clan to assemble all together in one place. However, approaching Father's Day of last year, the family gathered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to honor its patriarch and the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Ellis Marsalis. With sons Branford on saxophones, Wynton on trumpet, Delfeayo on trombone, Jason on drums, poet Ellis III reciting a piece written especially for his father for the occasion, and special guests Dr. Billy Taylor and family friend Harry Connick, Jr., Ellis inspired an evening of lively performances of repertoire with special meaning to the Marsalis Family, punctuated by family stories and anecdotes about growing up in New Orleans.

All proceeds from the project will go straight to programming support for the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, an education center and heart of the New Orleans Musicians' Village community, conceived in 2005 by Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr. in partnership with New Orleans Habitat for Humanity following Hurricane Katrina.