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Video: Wynton visiting the New Jersey State Prison
In August 2005, Wynton visited the maximum security prison in Trenton to meet the inmates, who are members of a group called the Jazz Allstars Band, after receiving a letter from Jerald Albrecht, a convicted robber who plays a mean guitar.
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Summer 2003: Wynton playing in Gardone Riviera
We’ve just re-digitized some clips from our old web site, and they are now iPod ready.
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Wynton playing for Velocity Broadcasting tonight
Tonight, jazz fans—at least a select few—will get to hear Marsalis when Pittsburgh-based Velocity Broadcasting airs a 90-minute concert and commentary session with Marsalis and his quintet live from WQED. The event also will feature a performance from Matt Savage, a 14-year-old pianist with autism, and Omega Love, a Pittsburgh-based group that released a self-titled album earlier this year.
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Our fan club on Flickr.com
We have just setted up an account on www.flickr.com to share all the shots took at concerts with Wynton. You can check the photos from last August London's concert at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. Already… Keep reading »
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Channeling the Granddaddy of Skid-Dat-De-Dat
In the recorded literature of jazz — and of American music, really — there is no greater document than the stack of three-minute sides made by Louis Armstrong for the OKeh label in the mid- to late 1920’s. Leading two successive bands billed as his Hot Five (and, briefly, a Hot Seven), Armstrong delivered a series of performances bursting with bravura and invention, in the process introducing a heroic new language of improvisation.
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Wynton interviewed about Louis Armstrong by WYNC Radio
Wynton has been interviewed by New York Public Radio about his concert on Louis Armstrong and Hot Fives.
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Wynton and Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives
Wynton and guest musicians will perform in Wynton and Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives on September 28, 29 & 30 at 8pm in Frederick P. Rose Hall to present the groundbreaking and historic works by the Hot Five, Louis Armstrong’s first jazz recording band with him as a leader.
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Wynton with Oprah Winfrey on XM Satellite Radio
Wynton Marsalis will be guest at “Oprah and Friends”, on the air Thursday on XM Satellite Radio channel 156.
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Wynton to perform Live at Feel The Beat: A Concert for CPR Awareness
A line-up of extraordinary jazz and classical artists including multi-Grammy winner, Wynton Marsalis, violin virtuoso Mark O'Connor's and Appalachian Waltz Trio, multi-instrumentalist rising, jazz… Keep reading »
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Taking Coltrane’s Music and Making It Their Own
Jazz at Lincoln Center began its new season on Thursday with the first of three nights devoted to the music of John Coltrane. The occasion doubled as an early celebration of what would have been Coltrane’s 80th birthday (Sept. 23) — cake was served during intermission — and an opening salvo for the organization’s third year of programming in Frederick P. Rose Hall at Columbus Circle. It was a success on both counts.
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