Branford Marsalis Trilogy

Jazz legend Branford Marsalis is the grand master of the saxophone. He played with Sting and Miles Davis, founded the group Buckshot LeFonque and was band leader in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In recent years, he began to focus more upon classical music and he now performs regularly with several of the world’s leading orchestras, among them the Bavarian State Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic.

His solo concert on 24.03 is already sold out, but there are still tickets available for his performance with the Belgian National Orchestra and maestro Dirk Brossé, or with his own Branford Marsalis Quartet.

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The concert in collaboration with the Belgian National Orchestra and conducted by Dirk Brossé in Bozar is a tribute to 20th century American symphonic repertoire. Branford Marsalis will also perform the world premiere of Cassandra, a jazz standard by himself reworked for orchestra and saxophone by Vince Mendoza.

Festival for Compassion, an initiative of Wonderfeel Festival, commissioned the Ukrainian-Dutch composer Maxim Shalygin to write music that calls for peace. The result is Drop after drop, which will premiere as part of Klarafestival during this concert, performed by the Belgian National Orchestra conducted by Dirk Brossé. The composition will afterwards be presented at different European festivals. Its trajectory can be followed via www.festivalsforcompassion.com.

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In his third and last concert he will perform with the quartet he has been performing with for more than 20 years: the Branford Marsalis Quartet. Get ready for a concert of sultry ballads and some very intense Nu jazz!

Want to know everything about Branford Marsalis? You can attend the lecture with jazz specialist Frederik Goossens (in Dutch) on Saturday 26.03 at 15:00 in Muntpunt.