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Wynton’s Joy2Learn e-presentation is now available !
The previously announced Joy2Learn e-presentation about jazz is now available !
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The presentations are menu-driven collections of video vignettes, with performances, commentary, historical examples, and interactive games and quizzes. The content is completely free. It can be run from the site or downloaded for later classroom use (requires a password), and many teacher helps are available directly through the modules. -
Wynton appearing tonight in a PBS homage to Louis Armstrong
Tonight’s PBS “American Masters” encore will show: “Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong”.
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Wynton will appear in the program on PBS to explain the difference between technique and nuance - and why Armstrong was so amazing at both. -
Wynton on New York Public Radio this evening
The radio program “Evening Music with David Garland”, hosted by David Garland on WYNC, tonight will feature Wynton playing Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat and Duke Ellington’s “Portrait of Louis Armstrong.”
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Wynton in a new “Joy2Learn” e-Presentations
A new Joy2Learn e-presentation is currently in production.
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It is entitled “Jazz” and focus on Wynton Marsalis. The presentations are menu-driven collections of video vignettes, with performances, commentary, historical examples, and interactive games and quizzes. The content id completely free. It can be run from the site or downloaded for later classroom use, and many teacher helps are available directly through the modules. -
Wynton in a BET Jazz documentary
Celebrating June as Black Music Month, BET Jazz will broadcast Sounds of Harlem, a salute to the musical legacy of New York’s culturally rich community of Harlem. Premiering Sunday, June 12, Sounds of Harlem is a one-hour look at the past, present, and future contributions that Harlem has made, and makes, to the foundation of American entertainment.
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Wynton played at Ossie Davis’ funeral
The actor Ossie Davis was remembered yesterday with rousing eulogies by Harry Belafonte and Bill Clinton and a musical tribute by Wynton Marsalis in a service that lasted almost four hours and was described by several speakers as a state funeral for black America.
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Wynton appears in a new documentary-film to be out in February
The film, ‘‘A Trumpet at the Walls of Jericho: The Untold Story of Samuel Harrison,” chronicles the life of Harrison, a freed slave and a giant in the antislavery movement. It features a soundtrack by jazz pianist Eric Lewis of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and will be shown on PBS stations in February for Black History Month.
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A Trumpet at the Walls of Jericho, portions of which were filmed in Hudson and at Hale’s Farm, is narrated by Ossie Davis. -
Wynton’s phone message to the Marines in Tampa
Greg Johnson, a trumpet player and Marine in Tampa, Florida, has known Wynton for several years. He called Wynton before the holidays to see if he could record a phone message to a group of Marines who were shipping out to Iraq shortly. The time also coincided with the Marines birthday.
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Happy Holidays from Wynton and Jazz at Lincoln Center
From Wynton to all his fans:
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Best wishes for a swinging holiday season and a brilliant new year! -
Wynton honored as State Department’s Culture Connect Ambassador
At a special U.S. Department of State ceremony December 13, Secretary of State Colin Powell honored 13 celebrities in the arts and sports who serve as the Department’s CultureConnect ambassadors, reaching out to young people around the world. The CultureConnect program, created by Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Patricia S. Harrison, recruits men and women acclaimed in their fields who are willing to contribute their time and talent on behalf of youth.
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