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  • Finalists Announced for 14th Annual Essentially Ellington

    Posted on February 25th, 2009 in News | 5

    Jazz at Lincoln Center announces the 15 finalist bands for its prestigious 14th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival (May 2009). 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.

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  • Wynton will speak about the new album on the Today Show

    Posted on February 12th, 2009 in News | 2

    Tomorrow, February 13, at 10:30 am ET, Wynton will be a guest on NBC’s Today Show to discuss his upcoming album “He and She”, the Blue Note Records’ 70th anniversary concert hosted by Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra National Tour!

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  • Video: Wynton and Sandra Day O’Connor discuss jazz music and government

    Posted on February 9th, 2009 in Video | 5

    Last January, at JALC, Wynton and The Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor filmed short clips discussing the relationship between the U.S. government and jazz music. The result was broadcast on Martin Luther King Day during Jazz at Lincoln Center’s “Let Freedom Swing!” concert in Washington D.C., on January 19, 2009. Following you can watch the clips, entitled: *Democracy, Unity and American Art…*

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  • Wynton playing for Timothy Dwight College

    Posted on February 6th, 2009 in Video | 1

    n February 5, Wynton was at Yale University for a musical “Q&A” at the United Church on the Green.

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  • Playing with a jazz great

    Posted on February 6th, 2009 in Profiles & Interviews

    Marsalis and Timothy Dwight Master Robert Thompson held a “musical conversation” in front of a full house at the United Church on the Green Thursday afternoon. The event, which was free and open to the public, featured Marsalis — a well-known American jazz artist and the recipient of nine Grammy awards and a Pulitzer Prize in Music — combining a discussion of his musical predecessors with performances on the trumpet.   Keep reading »

  • Wynton was a guest on the Kenny Burns Show

    Posted on February 4th, 2009 in Video | 1

    On January 30, 2009, Wynton was in Atlanta with JLCO to play at Atlanta Symphony Hall. Following the performance, the Collective Renaissance Guild (CRG) privy guests assembled in the Woodruff Arts Center for an exclusive cocktail reception with Wynton and other members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Celebrity personality Kenny Burns moderated a Q&A session about the power of jazz music and its impact on the Hip Hop culture…

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  • Wynton’s new book translated in italian and other languages

    Posted on February 3rd, 2009 in Books | 6

    The Italian translation of Wynton’s latest book (Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life or “Come il Jazz puo cambiarti la vita”) is now available.

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