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Marsalis Hosts Jazzy Hurricane Benefit Concert
Trumpet star Wynton Marsalis, co-founder and director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, is hosting a benefit concert and auction Saturday night to raise money for the Higher Ground Hurricane Fund. Artists lending their talents include James Taylor, Buckwheat Zydeco, Norah Jones and many others. Keep reading »
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Wynton playing live at Jazz at Lincoln Center tonight
Tonight Live From Lincoln Center will put on a special nationwide broadcast of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert. The show will be live from the Rose Theater in Frederick P. Rose Hall.
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Wynton’s Journey to New Orleans on ABC 20/20
Wynton Marsalis is on a journey back home. He’s on a mission to console friends, inspire hope and see firsthand his beloved New Orleans—the city he calls the soul of the country.
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Wynton on ABC 20/20 Friday night
Wynton will be guest at the ABC 20/20 on Friday night, to share his personal thoughts about the devastation of his hometown, New Orleans.
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Saving America’s Soul Kitchen
Now the levee breach has been fixed. The people have been evacuated. Army Corps of Engineers magicians will pump the city dry, and the slow (but quicker than we think) job of rebuilding will begin. Then there will be no 24-hour news coverage. The spin doctors’ narrative will create a wall of illusion thicker than the new levees. The job of turning our national disaster into sound-bite-size commercials with somber string music will be left to TV. The story will be sanitized as our nation’s politicians congratulate themselves on a job well done. Americans of all stripes will demonstrate saintly concern for one another. It’s what we do in a crisis.
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Wynton interviewed by French newspaper Le Monde
Wynton talked to the french newspaper Le Monde, about New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. Here is the interview translated in English
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Wynton is visiting New Orleans now !
Wynton is spending the day touring the devastation in New Orleans. He went down there after his gig in Maryland so that he could see the destruction that has reigned down on his beloved city. He is… Keep reading »
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Wynton’s interview at Tavis Smiley Show 2005
These are trying times for so many people from the great city of New Orleans, including jazz great, Wynton Marsalis. The New Orleans native and Pulitzer Prize winner is now the artistic director of “Jazz at Lincoln Center” in New York City. Tomorrow night, he takes part in a special fundraiser on BET. On September 17th, he hosts a special event for hurricane victims at Lincoln Center. Tonight, though, thankfully, he joins us from New York. It’s always nice to have you on the program.
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Transcript from Wynton’s interview for CNN Larry King Live
Here is the transcripts from Larry King Live, aired September 4, 2005 - 21:00 ET:
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Wynton at BET Relief Telethon tonight !
The BET Relief Telethon is set to air from 7:30 to 10 pm ET/PT on BET and will raise money for the storm relief efforts.
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