Photograph: Gilberto Tadday/Jazz at Lincoln CenterIn the past, Marsalis could be confrontational: a man with a rulebook and a relish for battle. “If you want to know how I think jazz can help democracy, listen to [2020 album] The Ever Fonky Lowdown. Trumpeters, we think we’re the kings of the orchestra, there to blow down the walls of Jericho. Maybe I’m less like that now …”I suggest that people will already expect young Elise, with such parentage, to grow up as a virtuoso musician. When Marsalis began running the jazz orchestra and jazz programme at Lincoln Center – New York’s pre-eminent arts complex – he was just 26.