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Wynton Marsalis with Ibrahim Maalouf and WM Quintet featuring Ellis Marsalis at Jazz in Marciac 2018
On July 27, 2018, The groups of both *Ibrahim Maalouf* and *Wynton Marsalis* join forces at the Marciac Jazz Festival along side a dozen other trumpeters to premiere a new work written specifically for this special occasion. Keep reading »
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The Marsalis brothers jazzed up a basketball conversation with Billy Donovan and Sam Presti
Oklahoma City Thunder assistant coach Mark Bryant was walking alongside the basketball court at the team’s practice facility when he passed a legendary face from the jazz world oddly hanging out. Bryant turned around on this September day to enthusiastically introduce himself to Branford Marsalis. The three-time Grammy Award-winning saxophonist was there to talk about the connection between jazz and basketball with Thunder general manager Sam Presti and head coach Billy Donovan. Keep reading »
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Wynton and Art Blakey playing Webb City
This old video, show us a wonderful group with the legendary Art Blakey and a the young Wynton and Branford Marsalis.
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Wynton plays in Branford Marsalis’ new album
On Romare Bearden Revealed, Branford Marsalis celebrates the life and works of the artist Romare Bearden.
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Working Together, Taking Different Roads
It’s true: the Marsalises have been overexposed to the ends of the earth. One might have looked at the enormous profile on Wynton Marsalis in the current issue of The Atlantic Monthly, noticed the recent PBS special about the family, then seen a full-family concert coming up and rightly wondered why nobody else in jazz was apparently worth paying attention to.
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Wynton’s Blues - The Atlantic Monthly (March 2003)
Manhattan is empty during the last week of August, and the kind of emptiness it achieves is like that of the mind during meditation—a temporary, unnatural purity. On a Tuesday evening in late August of 2001 I was wandering around Greenwich Village and ended up at the Village Vanguard.
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YOUNG MEN with the golden horns
Adept technicians or brilliant young masters? Cold fish or hot cats? RICHARD COOK suggests that the Marsalis brothers are more than the latest thing in tired old Jazz music. Keep reading »
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A Common Understanding (Wynton and Branford Marsalis interview): Downbeat December 1982
Nineteen eighty-two was the year of Wynton Marsalis – down beat readers crowned him Jazz Musician of the Year; his debut LP copped Jazz Album of the Year honors; and he was named No. 1 Trumpet (handily defeating Miles in each category). Keep reading »
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A family of music phenoms
It would require a long journey back into musical history to find a sibling team as precociously talented as the Marsalis Brothers. A couple of years ago they were just a pair of teen-agers unknown outside their New Orleans home, presently they have the hottest and most widely publicized new combo in jazz, a CBS Records contract, and a schedule that takes in festivals around the United States and Europe. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis: At 20, a master of jazz style
It’s seldom that any jazz musician - let alone such a very young, not yet widely known player as trumpeter Wynton Marsalis - gets a page to himself in People magazine. But early this year that’s where Marsalis was, under the banner “Personalities to Watch.” Keep reading »
