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Wynton joined by African drum master Yacub Addy and Odadaa
Part of a Drum Symposium produced in collaboration with the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, which will feature lecture-demonstrations, and films. Friday & Saturday, May 2 & 3, 2003, 8… Keep reading »
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New 2003 tour dates for Wynton with the Septet and LCJO
We have just updated all the 2003 tour schedule for Wynton. Now we have new dates with the Wynton Marsalis Septet and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, during summer and autumn.
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Wynton plays with Joe Lovano
The Michael Brecker Quartet, Dave Holland Quintet, and the Wynton Marsalis Septet with special guest tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano, will perform in a variety of different combinations at Avery Fisher Hall (Lincoln Center, New York). On April 25, 2003.
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New Wynton’s photos in our gallery
Thanks to Christof Rostert, from Hamburg (Germany), we have new exciting photos taken in Marciac on August 2002. Feel free to share your photos with all Wynton's fan. Send us your images via e-mail,… Keep reading »
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DVD version of “Marsalis family” in stores now
The Marsalis Family recorded together for the first time ever, at University of New Orleans on August 2001. Featuring Ellis on piano, and his sons Branford (saxophones), Delfeayo (trombone), Jason (drums) and Wynton (trumpet). Plus bassist Roland Guerin, and a special guest appearance by Harry Connick Jr.
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Marsalis, jazz band parlay brassy sound into gold
Collectively, the 15-member Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, playing Monday night at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, ran as though it is a machine driven by a single, powerful velvet piston. That’s what the great bands were about, everyone working for the collective good. Keep reading »
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Wynton and LCJO play: Evolution of the Groove
Legendary drummer Joe Chambers performs and composes a new commission for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra that illustrates the dynamic role of the drum in jazz. Augmented by a script written by celebrated writer Stanley Crouch, LCJO drummer Herlin Riley also leads the orchestra in a historical journey of the groove, from the talking drum of Africa to its place as the heartbeat of modern jazz.
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New Wynton’s picture on our site
Thanks to photographer Rob Becker, to Eric M. Brewingon and Todd Stoll, we have new exciting photos. Feel free to share with other fan your photos with Wynton. Send us your images via e-mail, we will… Keep reading »
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Working Together, Taking Different Roads
It’s true: the Marsalises have been overexposed to the ends of the earth. One might have looked at the enormous profile on Wynton Marsalis in the current issue of The Atlantic Monthly, noticed the recent PBS special about the family, then seen a full-family concert coming up and rightly wondered why nobody else in jazz was apparently worth paying attention to.
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Wynton’s Blues - The Atlantic Monthly (March 2003)
Manhattan is empty during the last week of August, and the kind of emptiness it achieves is like that of the mind during meditation—a temporary, unnatural purity. On a Tuesday evening in late August of 2001 I was wandering around Greenwich Village and ended up at the Village Vanguard.
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