Wynton Marsalis Hymns Quotations

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians.