Marsalis

Images of her and her husband touring and performing in Japan and pages from her family’s photo album fill the glass cases as Jasper Marsalis’ abstract paintings of musical performances hang on the neighboring wall.

Art Blakey told Branford Marsalis, ‘We had to take a lot so you can do your little flip stuff.’

Led by Wynton Marsalis, the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the center’s orchestra will perform 10 concerts that will each pay homage to a decade of jazz history, from the 1920s to the present.

The final performances of the season, June 13-14, will feature music directed by Marsalis and will showcase works by the veteran band members Chris Crenshaw, Vincent Gardner and others.

There are several scenes of Simon working on some of American pop music’s most memorable tunes in a manner that has long impressed contemporaries like Wynton Marsalis, who met Simon in 2002.