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  • Video: Wynton reading The Wild Old Wicked Man

    Posted on April 21st, 2008 in Video | 3

    On December 18, 2007, PBS taped Wynton at Rose Hall reading William Butler Yeats’ The Wild Old Wicked Man.

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  • Wynton to speak at VHA Leadership Conference

    Posted on April 21st, 2008 in Speech | 3

    On Tuesday, May 06, 2008, Wynton will speak at VHA Leadership Conference 2008 in Philadelphia. The speech title will be: Innovation and Jazz: A Talk with Music by Wynton Marsalis. VHA is a national…   Keep reading »

  • Video: Two Men with The Blues to be released on DVD

    Posted on April 17th, 2008 in Music | 12

    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 Leads The Faithful

    Posted on April 15th, 2008 in Review

    This past weekend, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, which is generally regarded as New York’s oldest Afro-American religious institution, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall was transformed into a kind of spiritual multiplex. Gospel choirs issued forth from every performance space, and also in the public atrium in between (where macaroni and cheese was served, presumably to evoke the provisions one might find at a Sunday school picnic). What artistic director Wynton Marsalis usually calls the House of Swing had become the House of Prayer.   Keep reading »

  • Tap Meets Flamenco at JALC

    Posted on April 14th, 2008 in Concerts | 1

    On April 24, 25 & 26, 2008, at Rose Theater, in a special concert event called Tap Meets Flamenco, Spanish pianist Chano Dominguez performs his work De Cadi a New Orleans with his flamenco ensemble and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra also performs selections from The Vitoria Suite, which the city of Vitoria, Spain commissioned Wynton Marsalis to write and “Evolution of the Groove” featuring drummer Herlin Riley.

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  • Marsalis Mass Honors Harlem Church

    Posted on April 14th, 2008 in Review

    A young institution pays tribute to a venerable one with Wynton Marsalis’s “Abyssinian 200: A Celebration.” It was written for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, founded in 1988, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, a bulwark of African-American New York City. The orchestra introduced the work last week at its own Rose Theater.   Keep reading »

  • Marsalis summons the spirit

    Posted on April 13th, 2008 in Review

    In the early days of jazz in New Orleans, Saturday night was the flip side of Sunday morning. The call-and-response dynamic among a band’s players was inspired by preacher and congregation; trumpeters emulated the bent-note wails and chants of gospel song.   Keep reading »

  • Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men With The Blues

    Posted on April 9th, 2008 in Music | 18

    On July 8, 2008, Blue Note Records will release the album: Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men With The Blues.

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  • Finalists announced for 13th Annual Essentially Ellington 2008

    Posted on April 7th, 2008 in Concerts

    Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the 15 finalist bands for its prestigious 13th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival. The bands will compete and participate in workshops, jam sessions and more, during the three-day competition and festival in New York City. The top-placing bands perform with Wynton Marsalis, as guest soloist, followed by a performance by the 15-piece Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra – all of whom serve as mentors for the finalist bands throughout the weekend. The festival culminates with an awards ceremony honoring outstanding soloists, sections and the top three bands.

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  • Abyssinian 200: A Celebration

    Posted on April 2nd, 2008 in Concerts | 5

    On April 10, 11, 12 & 19, Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrates The Abyssinian Baptist Church’s bicentennial with Abyssinian 200: A Celebration, a special mass and world premiere of music written by Wynton for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Abyssinian Baptist Church Choir.

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