Listen up, says Marsalis
As many parents can attest, rousing a child from sleep to make it to the bus stop can be a difficult task. Doing so during a vacation week would seem near impossible. But on Thursday, a group of students from Boston and Cambridge happily rose from bed and made it to class. The reason? Wynton Marsalis was in the house. For an hour and a half the famous trumpeter conducted a master class at the Boston Arts Academy, the city’s only public high school for the visual and performing arts. Double bass player Daniel Winshall, a 15-year-old from Jamaica Plain, was running behind for the session and feared his teacher would yell at him for being late. Instead, Marsalis singled out his playing. “My man on the bass, you are an unbelievable bass player. I’ve got to give you an A-plus, plus, plus, plus, plus,” said Marsalis, who joked about taking Winshall on...