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Director Daniel Pritzker talks about his new movie, “Bolden”
We at The Syncopated Times are excited about the potential the new Buddy Bolden movie has to excite people about early jazz, and have made a decision to be there for people who see the movie and want to learn more. As part of our extensive coverage of Buddy Bolden, the man, the legend, and his music, I interviewed the director of the film, Daniel Pritzker. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2019 Gala “The Birth of Jazz: From Bolden to Armstrong”
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2019 Gala, “The Birth of Jazz: From Bolden to Armstrong,”will celebrate New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, and support Jazz at Lincoln Center’s mission to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education, and advocacy. Keep reading »
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BOLDEN Original Motion Picture Soundtrack available on CD and digitally on April 19, 2019 from Blue Engine Records
BOLDEN Original Motion Picture Soundtrack featuring music composed, performed and arranged by Wynton Marsalis available on CD and digitally on April 19, 2019 from Blue Engine Records. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis To Bring Jazz Pioneer Buddy Bolden’s Life To The Big Screen
The life of the musically gifted and mentally troubled jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden will be brought to the big screen in the reimagined biopic Bolden. Helmed by Daniel Pritzker and executive produced by jazz icon Wynton Marsalis, Gary Carr (HBO’s The Deuce) stars as the talented musician whose life story is widely unknown. Keep reading »
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Watch the exclusive first trailer for ‘Bolden,’ a jazzy movie from Wynton Marsalis
Cornet player Charles “Buddy” Bolden was a father of jazz, the first king of New Orleans music and largely a mystery of a man. Now a new film from another icon, Wynton Marsalis, is paying tribute to the legend. Keep reading »
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Trumpet and coffee in hand: Marsalis visiting Phillips Brooks House
Marsalis, others sketch New Orleans during morning at Phillips Brooks House
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The music that didn’t stop: Harvard Lecture #6
In final lecture of his series, Marsalis outlines the rise of jazz against backdrop of repression
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Speech for The Century Association’s Monthly Meeting of Members
My great uncle was born in 1890. He was an artisan who cut the names and last statements of the deceased into their resting stones. I lived with him for the entirety of my 6th year and visited on many weekends. He taught me so many valuable lessons passed down from ‘old folks sometime long ago’ in stories, songs and folkways. My experiences with him saved me from falling into the generation gap. I return in my mind always to his shotgun house on Gov. Nicholls St. in New Orleans with its lack of hot water, 1930’s appliances, and big super-cooling house fan.
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The fan club beginnings… Part VI (The legend of Buddy Bolden)
..Buddy Bolden could play so loud, he could make the rain stay up in the sky.
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Listen to Wynton on Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio
Commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis’s In This House On This Morning is a jazz tour de force in 12 movements based on the African-American church service. The late Marion Williams, one of America’s foremost gospel singers, appears as guest vocalist with the Marsalis septet.
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