For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 06, 2015

I’m unfamiliar with Wynton Marsalis. Is/was he the Canadian equivalent to Louis Armstrong?

Search him on YouTube, your ears will thank you!

Nothing like a genius to make one feel dumb.

I’ve often said that when someone plays an instrument really well that if you don’t play that instrument, it makes you want to take it up and if you do play that instrument, it makes you want to give it up!

“Two Men With The Blues”Willie Nelson & Wynton MarsalisCoolest.Album.Ever

My daughter is inspired in her violin playing by Ishtak Perlman and Taylor Davis. If you don’t know Taylor Davis, check her on YouTube. If you don’t know Mr. Perlman…I pity you.

I guess if someone tells you “nobody can play like that”, then what’s the point? (kidding!)

Wynton Marsalis. He makes some very fine and joyful noise!

I agree with you Michael. I don’t think your Uncle does enough jigs to support himself. At least you went into publishing and accomplished a great deal.

like a fluid, one’s talents can only find its own level, you’ll never be Picasso, or Motzart, or Sartre, or even Jimi Hendrix.You’ll just be you, good or bad, there are plenty of people with little talent other than for being “famous” who get albums, fans, No.1 bestsellers and do not deserve a lick of the fortune that comes with it.Just be, that is all there is to life.“There you go man, keep it cool as you can.Face piles of trials with smiles!It riles then to believe that you perceive the web they weave.And keep on thinking free!

Well if Phil were a Newfoundlander, it could be jigs….

Louis Armstrong is considered one of the finest trumpet players of all time. And he was self-taught.

this comic strip was published in 1986, I expect Lynn Johnston dropped in his name to show that Uncle Phil was a cool and hip jazz cat up on contemporary jazz.-————————-Considering Wynton Marsalis’ talent, fame and reputation over the last 30 years, I’d say Lynn was right.

What Michael needs to do is tell his uncle and parents that he was wrong about the trumpet, and wants to quit. It’s hard to say, but he needs to.

I knew a singer who felt the same way about Janis Joplin.

BuckyKatt999: Louis (pronounced Lew iss) “Satchmo” Armstrong had instruction as a child from a New Orleans orphanage, could read music, etc., but jazz was a much easier field to enter with his melanin level. Coming along two generations later, Marsalis could go either jazz or classical – and has.

If you’re trying to impress a Canadian kid I’d have picked Maynard Ferguson. I’m not a big jazz guy but am a very amateur player and have seen both in concert. Quite different experiences, but both excellent.

If you know the fanfare from PBS’s Masterpiece Theater than you’ve heard Wynton Marsalis. He’s best known for his jazz music but he also did classical pieces.

Other great Canadian jazz performers, a generation apart, are Mo Kaufman and Paul Horn, both on flute, of all jazz instrumentrs. Kaufman is best known for his Swinging Shepard Blues and Horn for his duets with a Vancouver Aquarium orca.