News Updates – Music

Wynton’s new album will be released on August 30

Posted on July 4th, 2005 in Music

On August 30, Blue Note Records will release Amongst The People: Live at The House of Tribes, a new live album from Wynton Marsalis.

Upcoming Wynton’s new album for Blue Note

Posted on March 12th, 2005 in Music | 3

Post production will be done later this month to prepare for release of a smokin’ live date featuring Wynton’s quartet along with some special guests.
Recorded last year at the House Of Tribes in NYC the performance features altoman Wes Anderson, drummer Joe Farnsworth, bassist Carlos Henriquez, pianist Eric Lewis and percussionist Orlando Rodriguez, among others.
More news to come…

A love Supreme, the new Wynton Marsalis and JLCO’s album, is out !

Posted on January 18th, 2005 in Music

Palmetto Records has just released A Love Supreme, the label debut of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s renowned big band The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
Recorded at the end of 1964 for Impulse!, John Coltrane’s original A Love Supreme has been called one of the most important recordings of the 20th century.

A young Wynton Marsalis with Art Blakey on DVD

Posted on January 15th, 2005 in Music

Out this month is a DVD version of a 1982 concert of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in performance at the Baird Auditorium at the Smithsonian Institution. The hour long concert features a young Wynton Marsalis on trumpet, his brother Branford on baritone saxophone, Bill Pierce on tenor sax, Donald Brown on piano and Charles Fambrough on bass as they swing through “Little Man,” “My Ship,” “New York,” “Webb City” and a closing medley. A brief interview with Blakey is included.

Unforgivable Blackness is now available on DVD

Posted on January 14th, 2005 in Music | 1

Unforgivable Blackness, the Ken Burns’ documentary about iconic black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson is now available on DVD.
Combining photographs and film footage with music provided by Wynton Marsalis, Burns’ portrait of Johnson clicks on at least three levels: as a biography, as a piece of sports history, and, most important, as a lesson on race relations in the early 20th century.

Wynton Marsalis and Kathleen Battle on JALC Radio

Posted on December 17th, 2004 in Music | 2

The great soprano Kathleen Battle and Wynton, joined by pianist Cyrus Chestnut, reedman James Carter and bassist Christian McBride To celebrate spirituals and lullabies and of course, Duke Ellington. Battle solos with McBride on “Hush”, then soars on “Come Sunday”; Also Marsalis’ “Spring Yaounde” and Chestnut’s joyous “Come Ye Disconsolate.”

A New Orleans style holiday bash with Wynton on the radio

Posted on December 12th, 2004 in Music | 9

Red Hot Holiday Stomp is the holiday radio program on Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio.
A New Orleans style holiday bash with Wynton Marsalis and friends. Spanish tinged marches, blues and ragtime spice up the holiday tradition.

Listen to it (requires Real Player)

Wynton Marsalis’ Unforgivable Blackness is in stores now !

Posted on December 1st, 2004 in Music | 1

Available from Blue Note records from November 30: Unforgivable Blackness, Wynton’s original score to the upcoming Ken Burns documentary of same name.
The film marks the second collaboration between filmmaker Burns and Wynton Marsalis (the first being 2000’s Jazz series, where Marsalis held the position of Senior Creative Consultant.)

Wynton’s new album will be out on November 30, 2004

Posted on November 18th, 2004 in Music

Wynton Marsalis has lent his compositional and performing talents to the creation of the original score for the new PBS Ken Burns documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise And Fall Of Jack Johnson, a detailed portrait of the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World.