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  • Come, Blow Your Horn

    Posted on October 13th, 2004 in Profiles & Interviews

    (CBS) For more than a decade, Jazz at Lincoln Center has been trying to build a new home for jazz, a theater tailored to this unique art form. Now, what had been a dream for musician and artistic director Wynton Marsalis is about to become reality.   Keep reading »

  • Wynton to appear on CBS’s 60 Minutes

    Posted on October 12th, 2004 in News

    Tomorrow night Wed., October 13, CBS’s 60 Minutes Wednesday will air “Come Blow You Horn” a story on Wynton, the new Jazz at Lincoln Center complex in New York City and the future of jazz.

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  • Trumpeter Unmuted

    Posted on October 10th, 2004 in Profiles & Interviews

    Oct. 18 issue - Wynton Marsalis gives a piece or two of his mind to NEWSWEEK’s Allison Samuels.

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  • Wynton interviewed by the New York Times Magazine

    Posted on October 3rd, 2004 in Profiles & Interviews

    Do you feel personally responsible for the acoustics at your deluxe new home, Frederick P. Rose Hall?
    Acoustics is like a draft pick. Until you get out and start playing games, you don’t know how it’s going to go.

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  • Wynton and JALC introduce the Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame

    Posted on September 30th, 2004 in News

    Jazz at Lincoln Center tonight will celebrate the dedication of the Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame and the official induction of its inaugural class of members.
    Located within the new home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Frederick P. Rose Hall, the Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame, which interactively immerses visitors in the lives and artistry of jazz greats, was named by Jazz at Lincoln Center Board member Ahmet Ertegun and his wife, Mica, in honor of his late brother and Atlantic Records partner Nesuhi Ertegun.

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  • Listen to Wynton on Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio

    Posted on September 21st, 2004 in Music

    Mr. Jelly Lord: The Music of Jelly Roll Morton
    A rocking celebration of the man who claimed to have invented jazz—and perhaps even did. Wycliffe Gordon and Marcus Roberts join New Orleans natives Nicholas Payton, Wynton Marsalis and Dr. Michael White on “Mr. Jelly Lord,” “Fingerbuster,” “Wild Man Blues,” “Jungle Blues” and “Black Bottom Stomp.”.

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  • Listen to Wynton on Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio

    Posted on August 19th, 2004 in Music

    Works by Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Sidney Bechet and other New Orleans masters’ highlight the rich compositions from jazz’s first decades.
    This program features Wynton Marsalis, Herlin Riley, Michael White and Reginald Veal with smokin’ reinterpretations of Oliver’s Dippermouth Blues,” Morton’s “Fingerbuster,” Bechet’s classic “Wildcat Blues” and more.

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  • Jazz at Lincoln Center Spring Gala 2004

    Posted on June 8th, 2004 in Review

    For its third annual spring gala at the Apollo Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrated with a heady mix of traditional jazz and blues, heightened by the presence of a pair of pop-rock music icons, James Taylor and Bob Dylan. Dylan comfortably crossed over to a receptive and appreciative jazz community; Taylor’s understated, relaxed manner was refreshing and intimate.   Keep reading »

  • A Hall With Jazz on Its Mind

    Posted on May 12th, 2004 in Profiles & Interviews

    Jazz at Lincoln Center’s first season in its $128 million new home in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle will be a dialogue between the music and where it will be played.   Keep reading »

  • Wynton Marsalis plays the music of Mary Lou Williams

    Posted on May 6th, 2004 in Concerts | 1

    The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis honors this largely underappreciated pianist, composer and arranger who was also a mentor of Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell.

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