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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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Wynton Marsalis, “Black Codes” and Thoughts on the Highway
It is midafternoon on a recent weekday and jazz legend Wynton Marsalis is driving across the Southwest, taking the call on speakerphone that his 1985 album, “Black Codes (From the Underground),” has been inducted into the 2023 class of the National Recording Registry. Keep reading »
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“Black Codes (From The Underground)” among 25 additions to National Recording Registry 2023
On Wednesday the Library announced 25 audio recordings — the oldest dating back to 1908 — that are being inducted to the Registry, a compendium of sound recordings deemed representative of America’s artistic, cultural and historic treasures. Keep reading »
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A 2006 DownBeat Feature on Wynton Marsalis, Who Turned 50 Yesterday
I couldn’t attend Wynton Marsalis’s four 50th birthday concerts in which he presented repertoire from his 30+ years in the music business. All accounts state — no doubt accurately — that to witness them was an extraordinary experience. Keep reading »
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Wynton’s trumpet solo transcriptions are now available for purchase
The first series of Wynton’s most famous trumpet solos is now available for purchase. The solos are available in B Flat and in concert pitch.
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They cost $5 only and are in PDF format. Following your purchase you will be able to download the music to your computer and print right in your home. The available solo transcriptions are: Black Codes, Delfeayo’s Dilemma, Later, Big Fat Hen and Free to Be. -
Wynton’s solos transcriptions to be available for purchase
Due to overwhelming requests, we are pleased to announce that we will be making some of Wynton’s most famous trumpet solos available for purchase.
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The solos will be available in B Flat and in concert pitch. They will cost $5 only and will be in PDF format. Following your purchase you will be able to download the music to your computer and print right in your home. -
Review: Black Codes (From the Underground)
When Wynton Marsalis first emerged as a 19-year-old prodigy in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, the trumpeter’s ardent defense of acoustic jazz was heartening. Here was a musician with enough technique to win classical Grammys and enough charisma to land on magazine covers, and he was devoting himself to a tradition whose rewards were more esthetic than financial. Keep reading »