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El trompetista y compositor estadounidense Wynton Marsalis lanza “The Ever Fonky Lowdown”, obra musical sobre la libertad democrática, el abuso de poder, el racismo y la corrupción.
Interpretada por la orquesta Jazz at Lincoln Center, con Wynton Marsalis en composición y trompeta, y la participación de los cantantes Christie Dashiell, Ashley Pezzotti, Camille Thurman y Doug Wamble, “The Ever Fonky Lowdown”, obra conceptual emotiva y poderosa que fuera presentada recientemente en vivo en el Lincoln Center de Nueva York, cuenta con el actor Wendell Pierce (“The Wire”, “Treme”, “Jac Ryan”) como narrador. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis Gives Us ‘The Ever Fonky Lowdown’ On A Divided America
In the midst of a global pandemic, mass protests over racial injustice and a bitter election battle, it often feels like Americans are more divided than ever. Luckily, one composer has music that meets the moment. Keep reading »
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Con Wynton Marsalis: “Necesitamos ser más activos, sin importar en qué”
Wynton Marsalis publicó “The Ever Fonky Lowdown”, un álbum doble en el que aborda el racismo y las injusticias. Sobre eso, habló con El País. Keep reading »
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El disco de Marsalis que denuncia la desigualdad
Wynton Marsalis lanzó un álbum que refleja una obra emotiva y poderosa en la cual se retratan inequidades sociales e intolerancias diversas que se ven tanto en Estados Unidos como en el mundo en general. Keep reading »
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The Ever Fonky Lowdown: A Conversation with Wynton Marsalis
FOLCS is excited to bring to its stage Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Managing and Artistic Director and legendary musician, Wynton Marsalis, for a Conversation on his new masterpiece, The Ever Fonky Lowdown, on Tuesday, September 22 at 7:30pm ET. Keep reading »
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“Jazz anticipated this moment” – Wynton Marsalis on Black Lives Matter and the power of music
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and trumpeter on how music can highlight and heal the divisions in society and bring us closer together. Keep reading »
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Into Gettin’ Fonky with Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis was born into a musical tradition. He grew up in New Orleans, home of the best jazz musicians around – including his father, jazz-great Ellis Marsalis. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis: ‘Continue to fight for the world you envision’
Wynton Marsalis once again takes a long hard look at America on his latest offering with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra — “The Ever Fonky Lowdown.” Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis’ latest composition, ‘Ever Fonky Lowdown,’ tells satirical tale about politics, racism and greed
The nine-time Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize winning jazz luminary assembled his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, along with vocalists Camille Thurman, Ashley Pezzotti, Christie Dashiell and Doug Wamble, to deliver a satirical and surreal story about deception, racism, greed, democratic freedom and the abuse of power. Keep reading »
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Announcing The Ever Fonky Lowdown, Wynton Marsalis’s latest extended composition, a groundbreaking, satirical look at democratic freedom, abuse of power, racism, and cultural corruption.
Wynton Marsalis’s exploration of socio-cultural and political issues has yielded some of his most inspired and provocative work over the last four decades including the GRAMMY® Award-winning Black Codes (From the Underground) in 1985, Blood on the Fields ─ the first jazz composition ever to win a Pulitzer Prize─ in 1996, All Rise in 2002 (performed by Symphonic Orchestras the world over to great acclaim), and From the Plantation to the Penitentiary in 2007, which according to one reviewer, “reveals some important truth about this country with a lot of anger and heart.” Keep reading »