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The Brian Lehrer Show - Wynton Marsalis With Music in Lockdown
Wynton Marsalis, trumpeter, composer, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, talks about this year’s virtual Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival, which is celebrating 25 years. Keep reading »
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BBC Outlook - Wynton Marsalis: the making of a jazzman
Wynton Marsalis grew up in New Orleans in what’s been called America’s ‘first family of jazz’. His pianist father Ellis gave him a trumpet when he was six years old, but there was a slight issue Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis, Keeper of the Jazz Flame
Wynton Marsalis was on the cover of Time as the avatar of the “New Jazz Age.” His central role in reviving the genre is thanks partly to his gorgeous, virtuosic trumpet-playing, and partly to his founding of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Keep reading »
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BBC Sounds: The Business of Beethoven
In the company of some of the foremost Beethoven proponents - pianist Stephen Hough, violinists Anne-Sophie Mutter and Daniel Hope and jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis Keep reading »
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Exploring American history with musician and composer Wynton Marsalis
See what happens when jazz and blues meet classical composition during the Philadelphia Orchestra’s limited run of Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award winner Wynton Marsalis’s symphony. The seven movements paint scenes from important points throughout American history with evolving sounds and rhythm. Keep reading »
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After A Symphony Of Swing, Wynton Marsalis Returns For A Powell Hall Christmas
Wynton Marsalis has championed traditional jazz for decades, working many of its styles into the big-band format. In 1997, the acclaimed trumpeter, composer and bandleader became the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music, for his oratorio “Blood on the Fields.” Keep reading »
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Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen: The Classical Side of Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis is a jazz icon—a renowned trumpet player and composer, he is also the music director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. But since the very beginning, classical music has been a part of his musical makeup. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis On Defining Culture And The Future Of Jazz
We speak with renowned jazz artist Wynton Marsalis. His prolific career has resulted in a wide breadth of music, including everything from big band swing numbers to jazzed-up versions of nursery rhymes, made just for kids. Keep reading »
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Back from South Africa, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra gears up for Chicago
It practically has become a cultural rite in Chicago: Every year or so, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis returns here, often performing two nights in Orchestra Hall and fanning out across the city by day to teach young people. Keep reading »
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Homegrown Privileges Vanish in Exile
Commissioned by the Lincoln Center in New York City and released in 1997 by Columbia Records, Blood on the Fields is a three-and-a-half-hour jazz oratorio written by [Wynton Marsalis](http://64parishes.org/entry/wynton-marsalis/). The piece considers the lives of Jesse and Leona, an African prince and a commoner, who are deported from their native land and enslaved on a cotton plantation in the American South. Keep reading »