When Rodney Marsalis took up the trumpet at age 11, his first teacher was his cousin, the great Wynton Marsalis. Wynton was only 17 at the time, but already was a brilliant musician just a couple of ...

I was in the kitchen making dinner recently while my son, Leo, had his trumpet lesson in the living room. I watched him hold the instrument to his lips, then blow a note into the air. “Leo, Leo,” a ...