Title: Wynton Marsalis – J Mood
Year/Genre: 1986, Jazz
Matrix #: FC 40308
Condition: EX

Cultural Facts:

1. Raised in New Orleans, Marsalis grew up inside a multigenerational Black musical family tied to the city’s brass-band and church traditions.

2. By the mid-80s he was leading a “young lions” movement, arguing for acoustic jazz as serious Black American art in the Reagan era.

3. J Mood comes from his New York period, when he treated the jazz quartet as both a workshop and a public classroom for tradition.

Price Suggestions:
NM: $15–$20
VG+: $11–$14
VG: $7–$10
G: $4–$6
12/10/25 LM