My own view, FWIW, is that if Branford Marsalis had a different name, and watched his public statements more carefully, most people would think he's pretty darn good, based on the music alone. I don't like all of his music, but I do like some of it and I think he's quite a powerful and creative musician.
On the other hand, I don't quite know what to make of Wynton He certainly is or was, a great trumpet player, though I don't think his chops are quite what they once were. But I never think his music quite lives up to its promise, or to even to the swinging values he professes to hold. While he may have won a Pulitzer, he's never made a record as good as this one, or at least one I want to return to as often (unfair comparison maybe, since he's no Duke Ellington).
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