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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 »
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Review | Wynton Marsalis Septet, a Horn of Plenty
Masterful trumpeter and band leader Wynton Marsalis made good on his tradition of an annual visit to Santa Barbara, again hosted by UCSB Arts & Lectures at the Granada Theatre last week. Keep reading »
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Middle East Meets West by Way of Jazz
If you don’t know what an oud is, you will by the end of the show, Wynton Marsalis said to a young audience member at the start of the performance. Oud virtuoso Naseer Shamma fronted the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on Thursday night at the Marcus Performing Arts Center for a program titled “Middle East Meditations.” Keep reading »
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Wynton’s Shanghai Suite Proves a Glorious Premiere
Several years ago, Wynton Marsalis, during an interview on CNN, was asked about the components of jazz. He said, “The main three components are blues, improvisation… and swing.” Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis’ “All Rise” stirred souls at Hill Auditorium - and his trumpet fired up The Big House crowd
More than 200 musicians are shown rehearsing Wynton Marsalis’ “All Rise” on stage at Hill Auditorium. Photo courtesy UMS. For nearly two decades, I’ve attended Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis concerts hosted by the University Music Society (UMS). Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise Takes on New Meaning at the Hollywood Bowl
You’ve heard of the I “everything but the kitchen sink”? That pretty much describes Wynton Marsalis’s sprawling, 112-minute orchestral/choral/big band/small-group extravaganza All Rise. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis & Georgian American Friendship Makes Hamptons Swing
On a recent Saturday night, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performed at the Southampton Arts Center as part of the Hamptons Jazz Fest to celebrate 30 years of Independence for the Republic of Georgia and to honor thirty years of Georgian-American friendship; and, like all things Georgian and all things Wynton, it exceeded all expectations. Keep reading »
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Concert review: Marsalis and Lincoln Center big band jazz up Jefferson Center crowd
Jazz trumpeter, composer and band leader Wynton Marsalis is a guru to some, a gadfly to others. He insists on defining the genre from its traditions, rather than (as he sees it) the latest stylistic fads, which often water down the form. Keep reading »
