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Wynton Marsalis & The Glories of Jazz
In his new book, “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life,” Wynton Marsalis celebrates his passion. This generation’s global jazz emissary explains how a life lived under the spell of swing rhythm and imagination helps the body, mind and spirit soar. Keep reading »
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Interview: From Marsalis, Jazz Profiles in Verse for Kids
Wynton Marsalis has put down his horn and picked up his pen for his latest project. It’s a book called “Jazz A-B-Z,” and in it Marsalis shares his deep knowledge of jazz in all its forms with children. Marsalis jitterbugs his way through the alphabet profiling 26 jazz legends through a variety of poetic forms. Keep reading »
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Marsalis Turns a Page in His Career: The trumpeter turned author packs bookstores to plug his latest release, which isn’t available on CD
“Remember what I told you, now. Take a deep breath and blow.” It was a moment too good to have been scripted. Wynton Marsalis, a jazz artist viewed by some members of the New York media as a difficult, thorny personality, seated at a table in a little bistro next to Book Soup on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, gently giving an impromptu trumpet lesson to a 14-year-old. Keep reading »