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Originally posted by dolmansaxlil:
When I participated in Music Fest Canada a million years ago, Ellis Marsalis was one of the adjudicators for our jazz band. Branford was also adjudicating. They were both incredibly kind and supportive to a bunch of high school students. I had an improv solo bit at the beginning of one of the songs we did and I remember very clearly how gently Ellis guided me to improve on it during our session with him. He spent maybe three minutes on it with me, just making little adjustments, and my subsequent performances were a hundred times better for it.
Thank you.
Have wondered how strict Ellis was with his the training of his sons.
That is what I wanted to hear.

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