“The only way to play this music well is to sound like crap until you don’t sound like crap any more.”
Branford Marsalis talks about developing a “sound” (and why that idea is silly), the transition between playing in a small group and with a symphony orchestra, and even his Twitter “feud” with Kurt Elling in this interview with KCCK’s Hollis Monroe prior to Branford’s appearance with Orchestra Iowa.