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Wynton explains: What is New Orleans Jazz ?
Jazz for Young People: What is New Orleans Jazz?, hosted by Wynton Marsalis, will feature musicians performing and offering school age children the opportunity to learn about the birthplace of jazz.
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In this engaging narrative performance, Wynton stirs up the musical melting pot that gave us jazz. Everyone is invited to stomp, clap, and sing along to the polyphony of New Orleans jazz. -
Lincoln Center’s Man With the Trumpet, With Orchestra
Just before the lights dimmed in the Rose Theater on Thursday night, a voice announced that while the use of cellphones was prohibited, hand-clapping, foot-stomping and cries of “Aw, yeah!” were all welcome forms of audience participation. It was a hokier introduction than one might have expected from a concert called “Wynton With Strings.” But in a way, it suited both subject and setting.
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JALC celebrates Wynton’s 25 Years on the music scene
Jazz at Lincoln Center commemorates Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis’ 25 years of musical achievement with Wynton with Strings on November 17, 18 and 19 at 8pm at Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall on Broadway at 60th St.
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Wynton and Garth Fagan Dance performing Griot New York
On November 9, 2005, the choreographer Garth Fagan celebrates his 35th-anniversary season with a one-night-only reprise of Griot New York, with live music by the Wynton Marsalis Septet, at Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall.
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WNYC will broadcast “Bringing Back the Music”
Friday, October 28 at 7PM on 93.9 FM, WNYC will offer a live broadcast of this benefit concert for the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Review: ‘KC and the Count’
Jazz at Lincoln Center launched another season with “KC and the Count” celebrating a formidable time and place in the history of jazz. Kansas City served as a base for the birth of boogie-woogie and the development of a young New Jersey-born pianist, William “Count” Basie. Under the direction of Wynton Marsalis, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra re-created the spirit of an age and the great virtues of the kid from Red Bank. Keep reading »
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Reliving the Heyday of Kansas City Swing
It is the beginning of the second year for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home at Columbus Circle, but the 18th year since the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra became the institution’s resident jazz band. The second statistic is the more meaningful.
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William Vacchiano, Wynton’s trumpet professor, died at 93
William Vacchiano, a trumpeter whose musical career started in Maine and took him to the New York Philharmonic and The Juilliard School, died at 93 on September 19, 2005. Vacchiano was principal trumpet for 31 years at the New York Philharmonic and he never missed a performance before leaving in 1973. He continued to a teach until 2002 at The Juilliard School, where his students included Wynton Marsalis and Miles Davis.
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Wynton played at Peter Jenning’s memorial service
Friends and colleagues of Canadian-born news anchor Peter Jennings mourned his death and celebrated his life at a memorial service located at New York City’s Carnegie Hall on Tuesday.
In honor of Jennings’ love for music, the service featured performances from first-class musicians such as cellist Yo Yo Ma; Celtic fiddler Natalie MacMaster; and legendary jazz trumpeters Clark Terry, Wynton Marsalis and John Faddis, who played “A Fanfare for Peter”.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center hosts the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Concert
Jazz at Lincoln Center announced plans to produce the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert. Premiering on Saturday, September 17 at 7pm, the event will be held in the Rose Theater on 60th… Keep reading »