Marsalis Family

The Marsalis Family members was a one-off project assembled for the 1982 Columbia saving time. Pianist Ellis Marsalis teamed up along with his young-lion sons Wynton (trumpet) and Branford (tenor sax) (though brothers Delfeayo and Jason had been too youthful to take part). Jointly, with bassist Charles Fambrough and drummer Adam Dark, the Marsalis Family members recorded five music that composed fifty percent of the LP Fathers and Sons (the spouse highlighted the father-son saxophone group of Von and Chico Freeman). It wasn’t the very first or last period the three documented together, nonetheless it was the only real time these were particularly billed because the Marsalis Family members. In 2003, they released the live record The Marsalis Family members: A Special event which highlighted the family executing reside in 2001 to tag Ellis’ pension from teaching at New Orleans School. This year 2010, the Marsalis Family members released the likewise themed live charity record Music Redeems which benefitted The Ellis Marsalis Middle for Music — area of the New Orleans Habitat Music artists’ Village.