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Wynton and LCJO tours Ellington’s Nutcracker
Wynton and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra will tour the Eastern U.S. with a special repertoire for the 2005 holiday season. For the first half of the concerts, the big band will perform selections from Duke Ellington’s “The Nutcracker”.
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Wynton will sign copies of his new book
Wynton will be in Brooks Brothers’ Madison Avenue store on Monday, December 5th at 7:00 p.m. to sign copies of his new book, Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits
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Wynton explains: What is New Orleans Jazz ?
Jazz for Young People: What is New Orleans Jazz?, hosted by Wynton Marsalis, will feature musicians performing and offering school age children the opportunity to learn about the birthplace of jazz.
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In this engaging narrative performance, Wynton stirs up the musical melting pot that gave us jazz. Everyone is invited to stomp, clap, and sing along to the polyphony of New Orleans jazz. -
Wynton wrote an introduction on a new book about Katrina
Hurricane Katrina: The Storm That Changed America is a collection of photographs and essays by the staff and editors of the respected news magazine, Time.
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The book is organized in a day-by-day chronology of the storm, from the time it swiped south Florida until its devastating landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi, and Time’s writers tell the story of the storm in their reports from the scene. -
Higher Ground benefit CD is in stores now
Today, Blue Note Records released Higher Ground, a CD that documents Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert, a landmark evening of musical offering that was mounted by Wynton on September 17, less than three weeks after Hurricane Katrina imparted its devastation upon the Gulf Coast.
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Lincoln Center’s Man With the Trumpet, With Orchestra
Just before the lights dimmed in the Rose Theater on Thursday night, a voice announced that while the use of cellphones was prohibited, hand-clapping, foot-stomping and cries of “Aw, yeah!” were all welcome forms of audience participation. It was a hokier introduction than one might have expected from a concert called “Wynton With Strings.” But in a way, it suited both subject and setting.
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The fan club beginnings… Part VII (Wynton and Joshua Redman)
In this unknown video-clip Wynton join Joshua Redman at Church of San Francesco al Prato. Eric Reed is with them playing the piano. Enjoy this wonderful duet on John Coltrane’s The Promise !
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Interview: From Marsalis, Jazz Profiles in Verse for Kids
Wynton Marsalis has put down his horn and picked up his pen for his latest project. It’s a book called “Jazz A-B-Z,” and in it Marsalis shares his deep knowledge of jazz in all its forms with children. Marsalis jitterbugs his way through the alphabet profiling 26 jazz legends through a variety of poetic forms. Keep reading »
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From Marsalis, Jazz Profiles in Verse for Kids
Wynton Marsalis puts down his horn and picks up his pen for his latest project. It’s a book called Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits, and in it, Marsalis shares his deep knowledge of jazz in all its forms with children. Keep reading »
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Maestro Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis marries jazz and classical music like no one else. SOME years ago, surveying the historic divide between classical music and pop, a critic observed, “Jazz, once the arch-fiend threatening the whole fabric of musical society, is now allowed to be respectable, as a sort of first cousin to serious music who prefers to live apart.” Keep reading »
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