Trumpet virtuoso and jazz musician Wynton Marsalis plays and discusses music with an audience of young people in the first of four programmes for Easter, recorded at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Listening for Clues. Using down-to-earth illustrations of musical structures, Marsalis explains the classical sonata form and the chorus form used in jazz music, comparing
Prokofiev's Classical Symphony with the 32-bar structure of Duke
Ellington's Cottontail. Marsalis's own 17-piece jazz band join forces with an orchestra of young players conducted by BSO musical director Seiji Ozawa.
Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg ; Executive producer Chris Lent Stereo ............................