![]() ![]() Despite growing up with his jazz musician father, pianist Ellis Marsalis, and starting trumpet at age six, like most Americans he grew up listening to three-minute pop songs, and had to find an emotional entry into jazz. Marsalis starts the book not from an expert position, but talks about his experience as a child who was exposed to jazz. "I testify to the power of art, and more specifically jazz," says Marsalis, "to improve your life." As the book progresses, he takes on issues bigger than jazz itself, and, at times, what he writes is controversial. It's a meditation on life and art, and an invitation to live an energetic, artistic life. ![]() ![]() Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis' passionate and inspirational Moving To Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life is not only an ode to jazz, but a call to creativity in all its forms. Moving To Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life ![]()
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