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REVIEW: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s (JLCO) Christopher Crenshaw Composed and Arranged ‘The Fifties: A Prism’
Should you be counting, this is the fourth review in this weird year of 2020 for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) and their label, Blue Engine Records, which like all but the Wayne Shorter album, are being delivered only digitally. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis and the JLCO deliver virtuouso performance at Mechanics Hall
Mechanics Hall was packed to the rafters on Sunday night for Music Worcester’s first concert of the New Year. And why shouldn’t it have been? After all, it’s not every night that Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra come to town and this is a group that simply doesn’t disappoint. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis symphony at Philadelphia Orchestra an aerobic workout that inspired fight and flight
Such was the terse introduction by guest conductor Cristian Macelaru at the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Saturday outing with Wynton Marsalis’ Blues Symphony. More couldn’t credibly be said prior to the rambunctious, seven-movement, hour-long, high-traffic, multi-genre, multi-everything monster of a symphony that could well have devoured the Kimmel Center and the rest of Philadelphia along with it. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis and gang bring spirit of Christmas to Lied Center
Next to the arrival of Santa’s sleigh, a holiday concert performance by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra may be the most anticipated event of the Christmas season. Keep reading »
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The Sound of Joy: The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Brightens The Palladium with Big Band Holidays
The strain of melody, the symbolism of “Stille Nacht… Silent Night” took me back, years ago with my family, into the ascent upward and into the simple structure, a lone guitar and the small choir swelling into “Heilige Nacht” as we all sang from the pit of our stomach to the uplift of soul, surrounded by a canopy of silky star-draped sky. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto: Beyond Category
DIGITAL REVIEW – It was Gunther Schuller who coined the term “Third Stream” in 1957 to denote a fusion of jazz and classical music. When he became head of the New England Conservatory, he even created a Third Stream department. Keep reading »
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Sacred jazz: Reflections on a rare performance of Marsalis’ ‘Abyssinian Mass’
Since its beginnings, jazz has been draped in the image of sin. Because the music emerged, in part, in the bordellos of New Orleans’ Storyville vice district at the turn of the previous century, the world has viewed jazz as embodying the illicit. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis’s Abyssinian Mass brings joy to the Lincoln Center, New York
It was odd to hear the apocalyptic terror of Verdi’s Requiem one night before the sunny exuberance of Wynton Marsalis’s Abyssinian Mass. While the Marsalis, shaped like a black church service, is bracingly diverse in its evocation of jazz and gospel styles, its underlying spirit is New Orleans joy — New Orleans being where the Marsalis clan comes from. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra review: Wynton Marsalis and friends take on ‘Jazz Ambassadors’
You rarely see Orchestra Hall as packed as it was on Friday night, even the terrace seating behind the stage jammed with listeners. But that’s become a kind of norm for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, which long ago made Orchestra Hall a “second home,” in the words of JALC managing and artistic director Wynton Marsalis. Keep reading »
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Why Edward Norton Tapped Thom Yorke and Wynton Marsalis for His New Movie, Motherless Brooklyn
In his new adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn, Edward Norton plays Lionel Essrog, an orphan detective with Tourette’s syndrome, who wanders the streets of New York attempting to solve the murder of his mentor and father figure. Keep reading »
