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Announcing The Democracy! Suite, Wynton Marsalis’s newest work recorded live during the Covid-19 lockdown
On January 15, 2021, on the occasion of a new year and the 2021 U.S. presidential inauguration, Wynton Marsalis will release The Democracy! Suite, the follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer’s pro-vocative work, The Ever Fonky Lowdown, which was released in 2020. Keep reading »
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Blue Engine Records announces “A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration” featuring The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
New digital album includes beloved Sesame Street songs performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and iconic Sesame Street characters Keep reading »
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Announcing The Ever Fonky Lowdown, Wynton Marsalis’s latest extended composition, a groundbreaking, satirical look at democratic freedom, abuse of power, racism, and cultural corruption.
Wynton Marsalis’s exploration of socio-cultural and political issues has yielded some of his most inspired and provocative work over the last four decades including the GRAMMY® Award-winning Black Codes (From the Underground) in 1985, Blood on the Fields ─ the first jazz composition ever to win a Pulitzer Prize─ in 1996, All Rise in 2002 (performed by Symphonic Orchestras the world over to great acclaim), and From the Plantation to the Penitentiary in 2007, which according to one reviewer, “reveals some important truth about this country with a lot of anger and heart.” Keep reading »
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Jazz competition for high school students goes virtual
The coronavirus pandemic has altered the annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival, but it will still go on, giving students the chance to show their talents virtually. Keep reading »
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Blue Engine Records To Release The Fifties: A Prism By The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis
Blue Engine Records, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s in-house record label, will release The Fifties: A Prism by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Composed and arranged by Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombonist Christopher Crenshaw Keep reading »
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Blue Engine Records to Release “Rock Chalk Suite” by The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on March 20th, 2020
Wilt Chamberlain, Paul Pierce, Lynette Woodard, and Jo Jo White are among the University of Kansas basketball legends honored on Blue Engine Records’s Rock Chalk Suite by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Keep reading »
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Blue Engine Records Releases Black, Brown And Beige
Blue Engine Records,Jazz at Lincoln Center’s in-house recording label, will release a present-day recording of Duke Ellington’s groundbreaking masterpiece Black, Brown and Beige by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Keep reading »
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Blue Engine Records Releases Sherman Irby’s Inferno by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Sherman Irby’s Musical Interpretation Of Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy” Features Late Baritone Player Joe Temperley, As The Voice Of “Dante”. Available on all digital platforms January 17, 2020 Keep reading »
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Blue Engine Records announces four winter releases, including The Music of Wayne Shorter featuring Wayne Shorter
On the heels of Blue Engine Records’ banner 2019, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s in-house recording label proudly announces plans to release four new albums featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in January and February of 2020. Keep reading »
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Blue Engine Records Releases Jazz For Kids By The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Today, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Blue Engine Records releases Jazz for Kids, a new digital album from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. In the Orchestra’s masterful hands,the simplicity and familiarity of childhood favorites like “Old MacDonald” and “Itsy Bitsy Spider” afford a world of musical possibilities for audiences young and old. Keep reading »
