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Wynton Marsalis Is Focus as Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Opens Season
For the opening of the 2023-’24 season, Jazz at Lincoln Center did something it hasn’t done for a long time, if ever: It invited certain correspondents to attend the sound check at 4:30 p.m. at Rose Hall. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis receives Praemium Imperiale Award
The 2023 Praemium Imperiale Awards have been unveiled, with three of the winners in this year’s categories having links to music. Keep reading »
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A euphoric evening led by Wynton Masalis
When Wynton Marsalis’s début album appeared on CBS Records in 1982, with its moody, pensive black and white cover portrait of the then twenty-year-old trumpeter, few could have predicted where his career was headed. Sure, he had performed Hayden’s Trumpet Concerto with the New Orleans Philharmonic at fourteen, and further honed his craft in the trumpet chair of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Keep reading »
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2023-24 Season Opener: “Beyond Black Codes” on Sept. 21-23, and Blue Engine Records Re-Issues 5 Wynton Marsalis Albums
The world premiere of Beyond Black Codes featuring big band arrangements of songs from Wynton Marsalis’s highly influential small group albums will open Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2023-24 season on Sept. 21-23, 2023, at 8:00pm in Rose Theater. Keep reading »
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Musician Wynton Marsalis: A good fortune
Wynton Marsalis jumps onto our Zoom call and introduces himself before proceeding to play the trumpet. “I was just playing the trumpet call,” he says. “That was just for you.” Keep reading »
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An evening (and morning) with one of jazz’s all time greats
Can a trumpet actually sing? Can a jazz orchestra really speak to you? If the trumpet is played by and the orchestra is led by Wynton Marsalis, then the answers to both questions are a profound yes. Keep reading »
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Jazz giant plans to stir up a storm in Canberra
Few musicians on the world stage occupy a position of such responsibility as Marsalis, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the first jazz composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music and still the only musician to have won a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical categories in the same year – he was just 22 at the time. Keep reading »
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Blue Engine Records Announces Release of Wynton Marsalis Plays Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Sevens
On August 4, 2023, on what would have been Louis Armstrong’s 122 birthday—although many celebrate the trailblazer on July 4, as he was lovingly hailed as a “firecracker baby” by his mother—Blue Engine Records proudly releases Wynton Marsalis Plays Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Sevens. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis to deliver the Nexus Lecture 2023
Music has the power to elevate our quality of life, to connect people and broaden our consciousness’, says world-renowned jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and educator Wynton Marsalis. Keep reading »
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Colgate University 2023 Commencement Address by Wynton Marsalis
Thank you, Marietta Cheng for the humbling introduction. Thank you, President Casey, Dean Cushing, Colgate Trustees, and the faculty and staff of Colgate for having me with you today. My fellow honorees, it’s a pleasure to be up here with you. Keep reading »
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