Publication: Playbill.com
Author: Stuart Miller
Date: December 9, 2011
Unexpected musicians — Alicia Keys, Branford Marsalis, Terence Blanchard — flavor a new crop of plays on Broadway.
As The Mountaintop, Katori Hall’s debut Broadway play, begins, we hear the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. accompanied by a trumpet, a lone horn singing with an elegiac yearning.
Those notes did not come easy.
The music was written by Branford Marsalis, best known as a saxophone player, former “Tonight Show” bandleader, jazz composer and recording artist. But he’s part of a new generation of composers and musicians bringing their talents to Broadway, not by writing showstoppers for musicals but by making subtler additions to straight plays. Read more »
Categories
Tags in Tags
Branford Marsalis Branford Marsalis Quartet ellis marsalis four mfs playin' tunes Joey Calderazzo Justin Faulkner Marsalis Family marsalis music metamorphosen miguel zenon music redeems new orleansFilter by Artist
Marsalis Music Radio
Join Our Mailing List
- RT @bmarsalis: Compliments of the @T_Blanchard archives. https://t.co/4RsXbyEloa — 1 year 43 weeks ago MarsalisMusic