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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 »
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Wynton Marsalis: The Jazz Review Interview
He’s a busy man, but he’s immaculate - crispest suit I’ve seen in a while, hairline darkened and groomed to a pencilled exactness, the familiar playful smile always hovering around the lips. Keep reading »
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A Hall With Jazz on Its Mind
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s first season in its $128 million new home in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle will be a dialogue between the music and where it will be played. Keep reading »
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Wynton talking to Tavis Smiley about his new album: “The Magic Hour”
On March 29 2004, Tavis Smiley, (who has a talk show on PBS) interviewed Wynton for his NPR radio broadcast.
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Downbeat: Wynton’s Empire
It’s the Wynton Marsalis you rarely see. Dressed casually – wire-rim glasses, an untucked blue shirt, jeans and gray-white running shoes – he looks relaxed in the Right Track recording studio in New York. He and pianist Eric Lewis, bassist Carlos Henriquez and drummer Ali Jackson huddle as if they could be discussing strategy for an upcoming four-on-four basketball game. But this is play time of a different sort: rhythm talk in preparation for take 14 of a new Marsalis composition, “Free To Be”, a song with a sunny bounce and syncopated skip. Keep reading »