Moving To Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life

Moving To Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life

Moving To Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life
Wynton Marsalis with Geoffrey C. Ward
208 pages
ISBN: 978-1-40006078-8
Random House
2008

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. It's a meditation on life and art, and an invitation to live an energetic, artistic life. "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. More...