As part of the performing arts center’s 2023-24 concert season, the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis will honor Shorter, the innovative saxophonist who died this month.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/arts/music/jazz-at-lincoln-center-season.html

But in 2014 he returned to music with his first solo album in decades, the well-received “Croz,” which included this tender meditation on aging complete with a classy trumpet solo by Wynton Marsalis.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-01-19/david-crosby-dies-12-essential-songs-stills-young-nash-byrds

If troubled youth is characteristic of a sensitive soul, Marsalis, who turned pro at 14, was having none of it.

Source: https://voiceofoc.org/2023/03/branford-marsalis-on-the-road-but-never-far-from-home/

Other full albums receiving recognition include 1970’s Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, 1983’s Synchronicity by The Police, and 1985’s Black Codes (From the Underground) by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.

Source: https://jerseyeveningpost.com/morenews/entertainment/2023/04/12/john-lennon-and-led-zeppelin-recordings-added-to-us-library-of-congress/

Seeing the Marsalis Quartet perform live was on Tracy Barber’s bucket list for several years.

Source: https://theroanoketribune.org/branford-marsalis-a-jazzy-night-at-jefferson-center/