May 7, 2010, 4:03 pm
At Trumpeter’s Home, the Door’s Always Open
By COREY KILGANNON
On Thursday evening, Joey Pero walked past Lincoln Center and stepped into the lobby of a luxury high-rise apartment building on West 66th Street and told the doorman, “We’re here to see Wynton.”
Mr. Pero, a 29-year-old, Juilliard-educated trumpet player with a new album out, headed up to a sprawling apartment with stunning views of Manhattan and New Jersey and the purple-glowing sky beyond.
In a far room, Wynton Marsalis plunked out notes at different intervals on a grand piano covered with music books. Mr. Marsalis was on a tight deadline, but he got up – his pal Joey was here.
“Joey’s like a member of my family,” Mr. Marsalis said. The two trumpeters get together regularly at Mr. Marsalis’s apartment, for a chess game or a meal or maybe some playing.
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He’s a chess fanatic.