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Wynton in the New York October issue of WHERE magazine
Jazz has always occupied a unique space in America’s cultural imagination. Though its rich tradition includes such singular artists as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, it has often been looked upon as too esoteric for public tastes instead of being hailed as our nation’s preeminent homegrown art form. Perhaps no one has done more to dispel this myth and bring jazz into the world’s consciousness than Wynton Marsalis.
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The Making of a Jazz Statesman
As Jazz at Lincoln Center prepares for the first concert tonight at its new digs—three theaters in the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle—Wynton Marsalis, its trumpet-playing star and artistic director, is behaving increasingly statesmanlike. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis and the temple of jazz
Wynton Marsalis is scheduled to do an interview about Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s $128 million new permanent home and performance space. But the interview can’t get started because Marsalis, who has been JLC’s artistic director since its founding in 1991, can’t stop staring at the temporary stage in the Allen Room, one of Rose Hall’s three sumptuous theaters. Keep reading »
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A Home That Jazz Can Call Its Own
FOR many months, Wynton Marsalis has written in a spiral-bound red notebook. The notes, in a small, neat pencil script, deal with how to create the new $128 million performing arts complex for Jazz at Lincoln Center, of which he is the artistic director. Keep reading »
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Ed Bradely interviews Wynton for CBS’s 60 Minutes 2004
For more than a decade, Jazz at Lincoln Center has been trying to build a new home for jazz, a theater tailored to this unique art form.
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Now, what had been a dream for musician and artistic director Wynton Marsalis is about to become reality. And he tells Correspondent Ed Bradley it’s proof that jazz is not, as many critics have charged, struggling to survive. -
Come, Blow Your Horn
(CBS) For more than a decade, Jazz at Lincoln Center has been trying to build a new home for jazz, a theater tailored to this unique art form. Now, what had been a dream for musician and artistic director Wynton Marsalis is about to become reality. Keep reading »
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Trumpeter Unmuted
Oct. 18 issue - Wynton Marsalis gives a piece or two of his mind to NEWSWEEK’s Allison Samuels.
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Wynton interviewed by the New York Times Magazine
Do you feel personally responsible for the acoustics at your deluxe new home, Frederick P. Rose Hall?
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Acoustics is like a draft pick. Until you get out and start playing games, you don’t know how it’s going to go. -
Keeping Time: Music Is a Core Subject
School administrators facing budget cuts often look to eliminate what they consider “nonessential” programs. Invariably, their red pen lands on the same line item: music class. It strikes me as strange that music is considered nonessential. More than simply being a source of cultural pride and listening pleasure, music represents a core ingredient in the education of our children. Keep reading »
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For Marsalis, jazz is about elevating life
Wynton Marsalis has lofty ambitions for jazz music. Not just for his own music (although he has set those sights dizzyingly high). Marsalis believes that jazz is capable of raising the bar of life itself. Keep reading »