Photo Coverage: WYNTON MARSALIS: A YOUNGARTS MASTERCLASS Kicks Off HBO Family Documentary Series
By: Stephen Sorokoff Sep. 06, 2013
The HBO Family documentary Wynton Marsalis: A YOUNGARTS MASTERCLASS kicks off the third season of the two-time Emmy-nominated series, following three promising musicians as they work with jazz legend, Wynton Marsalis. In the season debut MONDAY, SEPT. 9 (7:30-8:00 p.m. ET/PT), on HBO, the young virtuosos selected by the National YoungArts Foundation - which offers talented high-school students from around the country the chance to be mentored by some of the world's greatest artists - prepare to perform alongside Marsalis at during a family Jazz for Young People concert performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
In the all-new YOUNGARTS MASTERCLASS episode three promising young musicians - saxophonist Patrick Bartley, pianist Tony Madruga, and bass player Russell Hall - meet at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York to practice under the tutelage of Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis. The mentees pay close attention as he provides invaluable critique on musicianship and offers insights into the realm of improvisation. "Jazz is the only music in the world where four people sit up on a bandstand and they have to give shape, logic, and form to music as they're making it," Marsalis explains. "What musicians do and artists do, is they give form to chaos."
Though best known for his virtuosity on the trumpet as a composer and bandleader, Marsalis is also an outstanding educator. He effortlessly gives feedback on the students' own instruments - even taking to the piano without missing a beat. Over dinner, he recounts his own career path and advises them on life in the professional jazz world. Encouraging the threesome to become one another's support system, he tells them that if they really want to be professionals, they should have many kinds of experiences to learn from, saying, "Play with different people. Play all kinds of gigs... Broadway shows, the circus, cocktail parties!"
Photo Credit: Stephen Sorokoff
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