Sunday, August 26, Branford will be celebrating his birthday with Dead & Company at LOCKN’ Festival. He will help close the festival, joining the band for their second set, after their...
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Jazz NewsMay 02, 2018Rolling Stone
Branford Marsalis, who first performed with the Grateful Dead in the Nineties, will rejoin surviving members of the group at the 2018 Lock'n Fest.
A Grateful Dead late-career highlight...
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Jazz NewsApril 30, 2018
Branford performs Monday, April 30 in St. Petersburg, Russia as part of International Jazz Day's All-Star Global Concert. The concert, to be held at the famed Mariinsky Theatre and will be...
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Jazz NewsFebruary 16, 2017KCRW/ Rhythm Planet
I was lucky to attend one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen last Saturday night at UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance at Royce Hall...The mind-blowing concert this past...
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Jazz NewsFebruary 16, 2017
Congratulations to Branford and the Branford Marsalis Quartet for their 2017 ECHO Jazz Awards nominations! The Quartet has been nominated in the category of International Ensemble of the Year and...
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Jazz NewsDecember 06, 2016
Congratulations to the Branford Marsalis Quartet with...
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Jazz NewsOctober 06, 2016
The Branford Marsalis Quartet with special guest Kurt Elling...
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Jazz NewsAugust 04, 2016The Guardian
Branford Marsalis has mastered most tricks of the sax-player’s trade – traditional song-playing lyricism, an advanced post-Coltrane technique (lately coupled with a classical one), and...
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Jazz NewsJuly 25, 2016Jazz Times
How did one of the best and most important jazz bands around—saxophonist Branford Marsalis, pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Justin Faulkner—come to unite with...
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Jazz NewsJune 10, 2016
Upward Spiral - New Album from the Branford Marsalis Quartet with special guest Kurt Elling
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