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Wynton Marsalis Addresses Juilliard’s 294 Graduates
Your art can be the vaccine for the types of self-involved hysterias that have so often stained human history,” Wynton Marsalis told Juilliard’s nearly 300 graduates and their family members and friends at the school’s 113th commencement ceremony. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis to deliver the Commencement Address at Juilliard’s 113th Commencement Ceremony
The Juilliard School today announced that alumnus Wynton Marsalis—trumpeter, director of Juilliard Jazz Studies, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center—will address the graduates at the school’s 113th commencement ceremony, which takes place Friday, May 18, 2018, at 11am in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. Keep reading »
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Students, faculty reflect on lessons from Wynton Marsalis’ visit
Intense. Approachable. Wise. Those were among the impressions several Cornell faculty and students have from a week spent with jazz musician and educator Wynton Marsalis, on campus March 22-28 for his first extended visit as an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large. Keep reading »
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Juilliard: An Interview With Wynton Marsalis
Founded in 1939, it’s hard to believe that Blue Note Records has been around for nearly 80 years. Synonymous with extraordinary jazz since its inception, the label has produced and/or commissioned albums from an almost endless list of genre titans, including Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Jackie McLean, Woody Shaw, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver, and McCoy Tyner—all of whom have works that the Jazz Orchestra is scheduled to perform on April 3. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis to mentor, perform during Cornell visit March 22-28
Famed musician Wynton Marsalis comes to Cornell next week for his first visit as an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large, to mentor and perform with student musicians, participate in classes and engage with the campus and Ithaca communities. Keep reading »
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Jazz Legend Wynton Marsalis in concert with Cornell ensembles March 28
Internationally acclaimed musician, composer, and bandleader Wynton Marsalis will play in concert with student musicians at Cornell’s Bailey Hall on Wednesday, March 28 at 8:00pm. The concert is free and open to the public with no tickets required. Seating is first-come, first-served. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center announces 15 Finalists for the 2018 Essentially Ellington Competition
Jazz at Lincoln Center proudly announces the 15 finalist bands that will compete in the 23rd Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival – one of the most innovative jazz education events in the world – at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s home, Frederick P. Rose Hall, on May 10 – 12, 2018. Keep reading »
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For Wynton Marsalis, forgetting the roots of jazz is forgetting the history of race in America
JALC is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and Marsalis is showing no signs of slowing down. He has never been one to shy away from speaking his mind on the record as well as on issues of race. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for his jazz oratorio Blood on the Fields, which deals with slavery, and the content from his 2007 album From the Plantation to the Penitentiary is self-explanatory. Keep reading »
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First annual jazz conference to be held at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center and JazzTimes have joined forces to co-produce the Jazz Congress, a new annual conference designed to bring together artists, media and industry leaders in the global jazz community to exchange ideas in order to nurture and grow the jazz community and the underlying business and organizations that promote, produce, present, market and support the music. Keep reading »
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Jazz is Everything - The Artful Life of Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis was born in New Orleans, the same city that also birthed jazz. However, just as the music couldn’t be contained, neither could the people who made it. Keep reading »