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The Spirit of New Orleans
Down on the Bayou where the mighty Mississippi kisses Lake Pontchartrain and spills into the Gulf of Mexico. There sits that jewel of the Southland. What the French lost to the British who gave it to the Spanish who lost it back to the French who sold it to America for….. Well, some folks say Jefferson conned Napoleon in a card game and won it for some jambalaya and a chicory coffee. New Orleans, N’Awlins, the Crescent City, the Big Easy, the northern capitol of the Caribbean, Groove City. Man, they have things down there you wouldn’t believe.… Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis Featured In Vogue Magazine
Wynton Marsalis loves the sound of New York City. For the 48-year-old jazzman, there’s a thrilling harmony in the jangle of the streets. “If you listen beneath the surface of noise—the construction, the sound of the traffic, beneath the rumble of the subway—you can get down to the different interactions between people,” he says. If anyone can hear such nuance, surely Marsalis can. Born in sound-rich New Orleans, he came to New York as a seventeen-year-old prodigy to study at the Juilliard School and promptly started gigging with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. These days, as… Keep reading »
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Wall Street Journal: Wynton Marsalis’s Enduring Opus
Toddlers filled a classroom one recent Saturday morning inside Frederick P. Rose Hall. Most sat in a circle brandishing toy shakers, some wandered off in the stagger of the newly walking. Welcome to WeBop!, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s program for children 8 months to 5 years old, at which singer Patrice Turner cleverly fit the words to the children’s book “Goodnight, Moon” into John Coltrane’s “Central Park West.” From the start, the organization has built jazz awareness from the bottom up. Yet there’d be no Jazz at Lincoln Center were it not for the ability of its artistic… Keep reading »
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Wynton’s exclusive op-ed article for DownBeat Magazine on newsstands now
Check out an excerpt from Wynton’s “Jazz Is Life Music” : “In the past thirty years, I have had the good fortune to teach thousands of bands and an incalculable number of students in diverse settings. Though each situation is unique, students share many of the same concerns in pursuit of a more profound relationship with music and with life through music. Every style of music presents distinct challenges which demand the development of different skills. Jazz requires creativity, communication and community. Through improvising we learn to value our own creativity; through swing we coordinate our communication with others; and… Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis featured in The Guardian
On inauguration day in Washington earlier this year, the Wynton Marsalis Quintet played a private party at the White House in honour of President Obama. The two men are the same age, but long before Obama came to prominence, Marsalis had been a national figure and so while he says “as a liberal and a Democrat I, of course, feel that things are better in America”, he is experienced enough to know that change, particularly in the areas he cares about most, might not come as quickly as he would like. As well as being the best known figure in… Keep reading »
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Wynton’s commentary for CNN and interview for Huffington Post
Wynton is now in Washington, DC, to play for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Following you can find a quote from Wynton’s commentary about the role of jazz music, democracy and the presidential inauguration, published yesterday on CNN. You can also give a look to the interview he gave for the Huffington Post. “On the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday, let’s recognize the pernicious effects of separating people by generic categories. In the fields of science and technology, we accept that one generation builds on another. But in the popular worlds of culture, there’… Keep reading »
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Wynton and JLCO featured on SundayArts
This week’s edition of SundayArts Profile – the weekly series on New York’s public television station Thirteen (WNET) feature Wynton and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Give a look to their video-clip Keep reading »
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Wynton interviewed by CBS News and The Hook
As you know, Wynton is on tour now with JLCO. While on the road he was interviewed by The Hook, a Charlottesville’s Newspaper, for his concert on September 11, and by CBS News. His concert at Peace Center in Greenville (September 13, 2007) was reviewed by the GreenvilleOnLine, and the concert in Baltimore, on September 8 was reviewed by the Baltimore Citypaper. Feel free to send us your comments and photos if you will attend one of the next concerts. Keep reading »
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Photo and review about Wynton playing at Barbican
Wynton was at the Barbican (London) yesterday night, with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The concert was reviewed by the Evening Standard, by The Independent, the Times Online, the Guardian Unlimited and the Telegraph. Some fans shot also beautiful photos and posted them on Flickr: Photo-set from The Barbican concert; Jam session with Wynton and some members of the LJCO at Uncle Sam’s Jazz club in Hackney on July 22, 2007. Please feel free to send us your comments, photos with Wynton and reviews if you attended one of the UK or NL concerts. Keep reading »
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Congo Square reviews from Aspen, Detroit and Chicago
Tonight Wynton is in Aspen with the JLCO and Odadda! to play Congo Square. Here you have an article about the concert on Aspen Times. Last week’s Congo Square concert in Detroit has been reviewed by Detroit News Online. Chicago concert for the Ravinia Festival has three reviews: by the Prairie Owl, the Chicago Tribune and by Concert Live Wire (this one has nice photos too). If you attended one of the past Congo Square concert, feel free to send us your opinion and photos with Wynton. Keep reading »
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