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New photos from Silver Spring jazz festival
Thanks to our friend and fan Robert Chubin we received new and exciting photos from Wynton concert at Silver Spring Jazz Festival. Enjoy the photos or download them at this address photos by: Robert… Keep reading »
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Review: ‘KC and the Count’
Jazz at Lincoln Center launched another season with “KC and the Count” celebrating a formidable time and place in the history of jazz. Kansas City served as a base for the birth of boogie-woogie and the development of a young New Jersey-born pianist, William “Count” Basie. Under the direction of Wynton Marsalis, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra re-created the spirit of an age and the great virtues of the kid from Red Bank. Keep reading »
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Reliving the Heyday of Kansas City Swing
It is the beginning of the second year for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home at Columbus Circle, but the 18th year since the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra became the institution’s resident jazz band. The second statistic is the more meaningful.
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William Vacchiano, Wynton’s trumpet professor, died at 93
William Vacchiano, a trumpeter whose musical career started in Maine and took him to the New York Philharmonic and The Juilliard School, died at 93 on September 19, 2005. Vacchiano was principal trumpet for 31 years at the New York Philharmonic and he never missed a performance before leaving in 1973. He continued to a teach until 2002 at The Juilliard School, where his students included Wynton Marsalis and Miles Davis.
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Higher Ground benefit concert reviewed on New York Times
True to New Orleans ritual, “Higher Ground”—the benefit for Hurricane Katrina relief at the Rose Theater on Saturday night—opened with a processional and wound up with a parade.
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New Wynton photos about the eighties
Thanks to our friend and fan, the photographer Pat A. Robinson, we received some photos about Wynton that take a look back to the 1980s. Thank you Pat ! \ Keep reading »
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Native Son: Wynton Marsalis
Born in New Orleans in 1961, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is the most prominent member of one of the city’s esteemed jazz families. He has won nine jazz and classical Grammys since 1983, and he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for his jazz opera Blood on the Fields. He is the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.
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Wynton will not play at B.B. Kings Club this saturday
The Hurricane Katrina benefit at B.B. Kings, this Saturday, Sept. 24 has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts.
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Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrate Kansas City and Count Basie
On Saturday, September 22, 23 & 24, 2005, at Rose Theater, 8 pm The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performs the music of influential Kansas City jazz musicians, particularly the legendary Count Basie and his spare signature piano style.
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Saxophonist Frank Wess, who played in Count Basie’s big band, joins the orchestra to play some of the best of Kansas City’s boogie-woogie jazz.
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Wynton played at Peter Jenning’s memorial service
Friends and colleagues of Canadian-born news anchor Peter Jennings mourned his death and celebrated his life at a memorial service located at New York City’s Carnegie Hall on Tuesday.
In honor of Jennings’ love for music, the service featured performances from first-class musicians such as cellist Yo Yo Ma; Celtic fiddler Natalie MacMaster; and legendary jazz trumpeters Clark Terry, Wynton Marsalis and John Faddis, who played “A Fanfare for Peter”.
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