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The Marsalis Brothers Reunited in St. Louis and It Was Magical
Thursday was an historic night in St. Louis, as jazz giants Wynton and Branford Marsalis, playing together for the first time in many years, performed to a capacity audience at the Chase Park Plaza. Keep reading »
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Concert review: Wynton Marsalis and his band entertain and enlighten
Wynton Marsalis and his 15-member Lincoln Center band finally made it to Merrill Auditorium in Portland Thursday night for a sold-out concert that was rescheduled from April due to illness. Keep reading »
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Musical Comfort Food: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Focuses on Master Composers
The title of this weekend’s concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center is “Masters of Form,” and as Vincent Gardner, who served as musical director for the first half, announced at the start, the name is a play on words in that it refers to “forms in music, the kind of established forms that we have ingrained in us, like the 12-bar blues” and the 32-bar popular song. Keep reading »
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Max Roach at 100: ‘Inventor of Modern Drumming’ Is Only the Beginning
Over the course of a little more than a year in 1955 and ’56, Max Roach, who was already the premiere jazz drummer of his generation, experienced the death of two of his very closest musical partners. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Leaves the World Behind
“Sherman Irby’s Musings of Cosmic Stuff,” a new extended work for big band presented this past week at Jazz at Lincoln Center, is a team-up between the most famous man in jazz, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s artistic director, Wynton Marsalis, and perhaps the most easily recognized name, face, and voice in all of science, Neil deGrasse Tyson. It’s a collaboration presided over by a saxophonist, composer, and arranger, Sherman Irby. Keep reading »
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Another great Lied Center performance from Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Wynton Marsalis is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest — if not the greatest — trumpeters, which he repeatedly demonstrated with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on Sunday afternoon at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. Keep reading »
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Recording of November 2023: Wynton Marsalis Plays Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives Hot Sevens
Recorded in 2006 but not released until now, Wynton Marsalis Plays Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives Hot Sevens was recorded live at the Rose Theater, the largest of three performance rooms at the Jazz at Lincoln Center facility. House label Blue Engine Records has now released this concert for streaming. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis Is Focus as Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Opens Season
For the opening of the 2023-’24 season, Jazz at Lincoln Center did something it hasn’t done for a long time, if ever: It invited certain correspondents to attend the sound check at 4:30 p.m. at Rose Hall. Keep reading »
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A euphoric evening led by Wynton Masalis
When Wynton Marsalis’s début album appeared on CBS Records in 1982, with its moody, pensive black and white cover portrait of the then twenty-year-old trumpeter, few could have predicted where his career was headed. Sure, he had performed Hayden’s Trumpet Concerto with the New Orleans Philharmonic at fourteen, and further honed his craft in the trumpet chair of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Keep reading »
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How Suite It Is, Or Six Flourishes For Trumpet From Master Marsalis
MONTREAL — Bebop revivalist, classical virtuoso, educator, and music director, Wynton Marsalis could be called a man of many careers had he never written a note. Yet the American trumpeter is a prolific composer, often in an idiom that subtly combines the traditions of classical and jazz. Keep reading »