Wynton’s Blogs
Wynton is in Marciac with his Septet: Complete schedule
Wynton and his septet arrived today in Marciac to perform at Marciac Jazz Festival 2008. They arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris early in the morning, and then took a new fly towards the south of France. Following you can find the complete schedule of Wynton’s presence in Marciac.
You can also be informed in real time of his activities following him on Twitter.
Wynton waits at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris
Wynton Marsalis Septet
August 6
- 10:00am - 1:00pm Rehearsal
- 1:00pm - 2:30pm Lunch
- 2:30pm - 5:30pm Rehearsal
August 7
Rehearsal with the Septet
- 10:00am-1:00pm Rehearsal
- 5:30p- 6:30p Wynton facilitates a Master Class at the Marciac College for new students.
August 8
- 11:00pm Concert one 90 minute set.
Wynton Marsalis Quintet with Richard Galliano
August 11
- 10:00am-1:00pm Rehearsal
- 1:00pm- 2:30pm Lunch
- 2:30pm- 5:30pm Rehearsal
August 12
- 10:00am-1:00pm Rehearsal
- 1:00pm- 2:30pm Lunch
- 2:30pm- 5:30pm Rehearsal
August 13
- 11:00pm Concert one 90 minute set.
Septet personnel is:
Reginald Veal - Bass; Herlin Riley (Drums); Marcus Roberts (Piano); Wynton Marsalis (Trumpet); Wycliffe Gordon (Trombone); Victor Goines (Clarinet & Tenor Saxophone); Wess “Warmdaddy” Anderson (Alto Saxophone)
Quintet personnel is:
Wynton Marsalis (Trumpet); Walter Blanding (Tenor Saxophone); Dan Nimmer (Piano); Carlos Herniquez (Bass); Ali Jackson (drums).
Wynton’s music scores for big band available for rental
Some of Wynton’s most important jazz and classical compositions for big band are now available for rental from Boosey & Hawkes. New music scores available include:
- All Rise (1999) for big band, gospel choir, and symphony orchestra
- At the Octoroon Balls (1995) for string quartet
- Blood on the Fields (1997) for jazz big band and 3 vocalists
- Congo Square (2006) for jazz band and African ensemble
Please check Wynton’s sheet-music section for more info. Jazz scores in PDF have now a special price if you buy the complete album. Check it!
Pre-order Wynton’s new book: Moving to Higher Ground
Wynton’s new book, entitled “Moving to Higher Ground: How can Jazz change your life” will be in stores on September 2, 2008. It will be published by The Random House Publishing Group. From now is already possible to pre-order the book on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Next week we’ll also publish some excerpts from the new book.
“In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life–from individual creativity and personal relationships to conducting business and understanding what it means to be American in the most modern sense.”
– Wynton Marsalis
Advance praise for Moving to Higher Ground
“An absolute joy to read. Intimate, knowledgeable, supremely worthy of its subject. In addition to demolishing mediocre, uniformed critics, Moving to Higher Ground is a meaningful contribution to music scholarship.”
–Toni Morrison
“I think it should be in every bookstore, music store, and school in the country.”
–Tony Bennett
“Jazz, for Wynton Marsalis, is nothing less than a search for wisdom. He thinks as forcefully, and as elegantly, as he swings. When he reflects on improvisation, his subject is freedom. When he reflects on harmony, his subject is diversity and conflict and peace. When he reflects on the blues, his subject is sorrow and the mastery of it–how to be happy without being blind. There is philosophy in Marsalis’s trumpet, and in this book. Here is the lucid and probing voice of an uncommonly soulful man.”
–Leon Wieseltier, literary editor, The New Republic
“Wynton Marsalis is absolutely the person who should write this book. Here he is, as young as morning, as fresh as dew, and already called one of the jazz greats. He is not only a seer and an exemplary musician, but a poet as well. He informs us that jazz was created, among other things, to expose the hypocrisy and absurdity of racism and other ignorances in our country. Poetry was given to human beings for the same reason. This book could be called “How Love Can Change Your Life,” for there could be no jazz without love. By love, of course, I do not mean mush, or sentimentality. Love can only exist with courage, and this book could not be written without Wynton Marsalis’s courage. He has the courage to make powerful music and to love the music so, that he willingly shares its riches with the entire human family. We are indebted to him.”
–Maya Angelou
Wynton to play for United Negro College Fund
On July 26, the Wynton Marsalis Quintet will play a benefit concert for United Negro College Fund. The performance will take place at South Orange Peforming Arts Center in South Orange, NJ.
Personnel is: Wynton Marsalis, trumpet; Ali Jackson, drums; Carlos Henriquez, bass; Walter Blanding, sax; Marc Cary, piano.
On July 29 Wynton will also tape a PSA for the Spinal Cord Injury Association.
Download trailer from Two Men With The Blues DVD
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis’s acclaimed collaboration Two Men with the Blues debuted last week at #20 on the Billboard Top 200. Following this success, on September 2008, the video of their first live concert at Lincoln Center will be in stores on DVD!
Now you can download a trailer from the upcoming DVD directly from our podcast on iTunes Music Store (open directly in iTunes). If you are already subscribed to the podcast, simply update your subscription on iTunes to download the new video-clip automatically.
You can also download the clip directly from this link (MP4 - 45 MB). Right-click on the link if you want to save them on your computer from this page.
Feel free to listen to an interview to Willie and Wynton on NPR and read an article about the new album on Newsweek
You can also discuss about the new album and the DVD trailer using the comments to this post or writing in a special thread on our forum.
On February 9, 2009, Willie and Wynton will perform again at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Tickets will be on sale from JALC web site on August 13, 2008.
MasterCard cardholders have early access to Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2008-09 season concert tickets including this special Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis performance when using their MasterCard card to purchase tickets.
(This offer is valid July 21 - August 13, 2008)
