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  • Blue Engine Records Celebrates the Holidays with a new release: BIG BAND HOLIDAYS

    Posted on September 21st, 2015 in Music | 1

    Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Blue Engine Records celebrates the most wonderful time of the year with the release of Big Band Holidays, a compilation of holiday classics performed live by the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Special guests on Big Band Holidays are some of today’s commanding new voices in jazz: René Marie, Cécile McLorin Salvant and more. Big Band Holidays will be released on CD, limited edition 180g vinyl and digital formats on October 30, 2015.   Keep reading »

  • Jazz at Lincoln Center Launches Blue Engine Records

    Posted on June 30th, 2015 in Music

    Jazz at Lincoln Center, dedicated to entertaining, enriching and expanding a global community for jazz through performance, education and advocacy, today announced the formation of Blue Engine Records, a new platform to make its vast archive of recorded concerts available to jazz audiences everywhere. The label will release new studio and live recordings as well as archival recordings from Jazz at Lincoln Center’s performance history, which date back to 1987 and are part of the R. Theodore Ammon Archives and Music Library.   Keep reading »

  • Wynton Marsalis personally compiles and produces “The Spiritual Side of Wynton Marsalis”

    Posted on September 24th, 2013 in Music

    Rich collection of spiritually inspired works recorded 1988 to 2002, originally released on Columbia Records and Sony Classical, available everywhere October 22.
    Concurrent with 16-city “Abyssinian: A Gospel Celebration Tour,” October 3-27, featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, conductor Damien Sneed, and 70-voice Chorale Le Chateau

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  • At the Octoroon Balls: String Quartet No. 1 Now Available in our Sheet Music Store

    Posted on March 12th, 2013 in Music

    We are happy to announce the availability of the score and parts to Wynton’s first and only string quartet: At the Octoroon Balls.
    The sheet music is presented in two formats: PDF downloads which can be printed at home; or a professional set of parts and score printed, bound and shipped by Subito Music.

    • Full score (PDF Download – print at home) $25
    • Full set of parts and score (PDF Download – print at home) $75
    • Full set of parts and score (Printed, bound and shipped by Subito music) $120

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  • Listen to Wynton Marsalis And Vince Giordano: Live In New York

    Posted on January 3rd, 2013 in Music

    The New Year’s Eve party at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola featured two institutions of New York jazz: the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Nighthawks. They count down to midnight with their interpretations of Louis Armstrong’s monumental Hot Fives recordings.

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  • WBGO’s year-end salute features Wynton Marsalis, Vince Giordano and more

    Posted on December 30th, 2012 in Music

    Wynton Marsalis will ring in 2013 on WBGO (88.3 FM) as the city’s jazz station crosses the country on its annual “Toast of the Nation” feature.
    This ambitious show starts in New York and moves west as each time zone welcomes the new year.

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  • 20% Off Sheet Music at wyntonmarsalis.org

    Posted on December 10th, 2012 in Music

    Happy Holidays!
    Treat yourself, or your favorite musician, to some of Wynton’s most popular songs!!
    Now through December 31st, enjoy 20% off of all sheet music orders from our web site.

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  • 15 Wynton Marsalis Solo Transcriptions for Trumpet

    Posted on April 16th, 2012 in Music

    Spanning nearly 30 years, this eBook is a comprehensive study of the evolution of Wynton’s style as a soloist.  From his debut recording a leader through his latest quintet release, our intent was to capture Wynton’s improvisational skills against a myriad of different backdrops; fast and slow tempos, different grooves and time signatures and, of course, the blues

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  • Released today: The Music of America: Wynton Marsalis

    Posted on January 25th, 2012 in Music | 1

    From “Hellbound Highball” to “Happy Feet Blues,” this collection of works is the greatest retrospective of Wynton as a composer.
    For the first time, Wynton Marsalis brings you this self-curated 2-CD set featuring ONLY his compositions.
    Performed by a diverse group of artists including musicians from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Orion String Quartet, Mark O’Connor, members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and Danny Barker.

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  • “Marsalis and Clapton Play The Blues” to be released on September 2011

    Posted on July 21st, 2011 in Music | 4

    New York City’s premier jazz venue got the blues last April when Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton performed together in Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center for two sold-out shows dedicated to vintage blues. The extraordinary collaboration, billed as Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues, paired these musical virtuosos with members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra as they brought to life a repertoire of songs selected by Clapton and arranged by Marsalis.

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