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Video: Two Men with The Blues to be released on DVD
Upcoming album entitled: Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men With The Blues, will be also released on DVD on October 28, 2008. Filmed live at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the DVD will feature the concert and backstage interviews to Wynton and Willie. Let’s give a look to a video-clip to preview the new DVD…
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Marsalis on Music available on DVD
The famous series entitled “Marsalis on Music”, in which Wynton explains the fundamentals of music to middle school audiences, is now available as four-DVD boxed set.
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Helped by his jazz band and students from Tanglewood, led by Seiji Ozawa, Wynton puts a fresh spin on music and music appreciation. -
Congo Square DVD will be released on March 4
The DVD version of Congo Square will be available on March 4, 2008. You can pre-order it directly on Amazon.com. The performance was filmed last summer at Montreal Jazz Festival.
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“In This House, On This Morning” performance on DVD
A few months ago a new DVD has been released. It’s about a 1992 performance of “In This House, On This Morning”, by the Wynton Marsalis Septet.
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Wynton wrote the foreword for the new Louis Armstrong DVD
This month saw the release of the Jazz Icons series by San Diego’s Reelin’ In The Years.
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Available on nine DVDs that will be released in a boxed set, the series features previously unreleased European performances by such legends as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. -
A young Wynton Marsalis with Art Blakey on DVD
Out this month is a DVD version of a 1982 concert of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in performance at the Baird Auditorium at the Smithsonian Institution. The hour long concert features a young Wynton Marsalis on trumpet, his brother Branford on baritone saxophone, Bill Pierce on tenor sax, Donald Brown on piano and Charles Fambrough on bass as they swing through “Little Man,” “My Ship,” “New York,” “Webb City” and a closing medley. A brief interview with Blakey is included.
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Unforgivable Blackness is now available on DVD
Unforgivable Blackness, the Ken Burns’ documentary about iconic black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson is now available on DVD.
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Combining photographs and film footage with music provided by Wynton Marsalis, Burns’ portrait of Johnson clicks on at least three levels: as a biography, as a piece of sports history, and, most important, as a lesson on race relations in the early 20th century. -
DVD version of “Marsalis family” in stores now
The Marsalis Family recorded together for the first time ever, at University of New Orleans on August 2001. Featuring Ellis on piano, and his sons Branford (saxophones), Delfeayo (trombone), Jason (drums) and Wynton (trumpet). Plus bassist Roland Guerin, and a special guest appearance by Harry Connick Jr.
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The Marsalis Family band hits the road
Inspired by a New Orleans concert in August 2001 celebrating patriarch Ellis Marsalis’ retirement from teaching at the University of New Orleans, a tour, a PBS special, a recording and a DVD are now in the works. The Marsalis family tour (check dates), kicks off on February 23.
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It features Ellis Marsalis on piano, with sons Branford on saxophones, Wynton on trumpet, Delfeayo on trombone and Jason on drums, and the only non-family member, Reginald Veal on bass.