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Wynton featured on Teaching Music Magazine
Wynton is on the cover of Teaching Music Magazine (April 2008). The magazine features an interview to him and a story about JALC education programs.
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Wynton interviewed by Macleans.ca
After his speech for the Ontario Hospital Association in Toronto, Wynton was interviewed by Macleans.ca.
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Wynton Marsalis on Jazz at Lincoln Center and States’ Rights
Tonight’s Benny Carter Centennial kicks off Jazz at Lincoln Center’s fall/winter season, which boasts a lineup that’s sure to have aficionados mobbing the Allen Room each week. Artistic director Wynton Marsalis took time out from the festivities for a quick chat with Vulture about this year’s lineup, his plans for a Civil War opera, and what it’s like being the only jazzman anyone’s ever heard of.
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Video: Wynton interviewed by Culture Catch
Recently, Wynton was interviewed in the Rose Theater by the staff of Culture Catch.
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Teaching A Taste For Jazz In A Hip Hop Age
They are young, gifted and surprisingly, just beginning to learn about jazz. Surprising, because this is Harlem, the cradle of jazz. “You know what’s great about a jazz solo,” a teacher tells a class of students. “It’s yours.” Every Thursday, a Harlem community center becomes a music school for prodigies like 8-year old Jalen Wilson, reports CBS News Correspondent Randall Pinkston. Keep reading »
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Significant music: Marsalis places excellent ritual over novelty
Wynton Marsalis has been known to spark controversy as a result of his rigid views on jazz pedigree, but he backs them up with passion, logic, and raw skill with his horn. He’s easily the most important voice of the trumpet in decades, and for the past 20 years, he’s been the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. This Tuesday, September 11, he brings the fruits of that project to one of the Paramount Theater’s most impressive shows of the season.
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Wynton interviewed by Radio6 at NorthSea Jazz Festival 2007
Last week, Wynton and JLCO played at North Sea Jazz Festival. Listen to an interview Wynton gave to Radio 6 NL
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Wynton Marsalis: a man, a plan and a horn
For a quarter of a century, the trumpeter, who had greatness thrust upon him at the age of 20, has been the go-to man when the media seeks a quotable take on one of America’s purest art forms. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis conjures sounds of early jazz in “Congo Square’
The drums return when famed jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis opens the 2007 season of the Mountain Laurel Center for the Performing Arts with a new composition, “Congo Square,” written in collaboration with the Ghanaian master drummer Yacub Addy. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis enthralls Duquesne U. students
Wynton Marsalis has a way of covering a lot of ground musically, whether it’s distilling the history of American music through the mouthpiece of a trumpet or, as in the case yesterday, through a microphone as he spoke to students at Duquesne University.
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