The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.

Other big band experience with Lionel Hampton and Clark Terry followed over the next year and by the end of 1981 Marsalis on alto saxophone had joined his brother Wynton in Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. created the concept of a Musicians’ Village in the city’s Upper Ninth Ward with the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music as the Village’s centerpiece. In June 2011 after working together for over 10 years in a band setting Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo released their first duo album titled Songs of Mirth and Melancholy on Branford's label Marsalis Music.

Branford Marsalis (born August 26 1960) is an American saxophonist composer and bandleader.