Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis,
New York City, c. 1985.

Photograph by Frank Stewart/Jazz at Lincoln Center.

 

“Black Codes”

Wynton Marsalis

1985

Marsalis helped spark a resurgence of traditional jazz in the early 1980s, making the case that the fundamentals of jazz, often lost in fusion recordings, were as timeless and relevant as they had been at the turn of the century.