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Wynton talks about the new cd: From the Plantation to the Penitentiary
Wynton is recording in studio during these days. This is a text of an interview that he gave to Associated Press about his new CD:
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Wynton on Ed Bradley - Interview for CBS
The day after Ed Bradley passed away, 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft interviewed jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis in New York City. Marsalis, a friend of Ed’s, is artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
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The Herald of Our Swinging Heritage
It sounds like a scene from the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris. The teenage Wynton Marsalis is walking home from school in New Orleans, carrying his books and papers in a blue American Tourister suitcase. Neighborhood kids hoot, because, really-a teenager carrying his books in a suitcase?
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Wynton playing for Velocity Broadcasting tonight
Tonight, jazz fans—at least a select few—will get to hear Marsalis when Pittsburgh-based Velocity Broadcasting airs a 90-minute concert and commentary session with Marsalis and his quintet live from WQED. The event also will feature a performance from Matt Savage, a 14-year-old pianist with autism, and Omega Love, a Pittsburgh-based group that released a self-titled album earlier this year.
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Wynton interviewed about Louis Armstrong by WYNC Radio
Wynton has been interviewed by New York Public Radio about his concert on Louis Armstrong and Hot Fives.
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Wynton with Oprah Winfrey on XM Satellite Radio
Wynton Marsalis will be guest at “Oprah and Friends”, on the air Thursday on XM Satellite Radio channel 156.
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Coltrane 101: Echoes of a Giant
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER’S more ambitious concerts, while playing to an audience impressed by flash and smoothness, never completely lose their pedantic side; they’re always functioning in part as lessons. But sometimes that doesn’t sound so appealing. The cost of living is rising faster than salaries, and now even pleasure is work? And whose jazz history is this, anyway? Doesn’t jazz activate a loose, adaptable kind of intelligence that teaches you to be suspicious of someone else’s agenda? Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis: The Once and Future King of Jazz at Lincoln Center
Hollering the blues, backed by a tambourine and twangy acoustic guitar, Mr. Marsalis was a study in contradictions. He was invoking rustic folk traditions while attired in a Brooks Brothers tuxedo and white tie. And he was sounding a note of abject despair while basking in the glow of 1,400 admirers, some of whom had paid as much as $2,500, as part of the fifth annual spring gala of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
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Jazz in America, To the Beat Of a Smooth One-Man Band
‘OH Lord,’’ Wynton Marsalis cried from the stage of the Apollo Theater. ‘‘Oh Lord,’’ he repeated, in an unsteady but soulful voice. ‘‘What have I done?’’ Keep reading »
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Wynton interviewed by The Independent
It doesn’t take much to annoy Wynton Marsalis. Jazz after about 1965? Forget it. Rap? Don’t get him started. But these days the trumpeter is turning his furious attention to some of the US’s biggest issues: corporate ethics, the continued persecution of black Americans and the inadequate government response to Hurricane Katrina. Sholto Byrnes tries, in vain, to calm him down
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