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Live at House of Tribes is in stores now !
Wynton’s new album, Live at House of Tribes is in stores now. Get more info about the new album in our discography section.
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Wynton and the 4th Annual Spring Gala at the Apollo Theatre
On Monday, June 6, 2005 at 7:30pm, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce a special evening with some of music’s greatest talents: the Wynton Marsalis Septet with Lyle Lovett, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Robert Downey, Jr., Wynonna Judd, and Tom Jones.
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Big-Band Music Without the Weight of Nostalgia
You have to work a little at understanding Thad Jones, the trumpeter and composer. He arrived in New York in 1954, a decade after bebop exploded. He spent nine years playing and arranging with the Count Basie band, and made some lovely but generally overlooked small-group records under his own name. In the mid-1960’s, when so much jazz was open-ended, small-group expressionism, he directed all his energies toward an immaculately sculptured big band.
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Wynton Marsalis swings the music of Thad Jones
Jazz at Lincoln Center closes the 2004-2005 inaugural season in Frederick P. Rose Hall by celebrating the music of legendary jazz trumpeter, cornetist and composer, Thad Jones, with two very special events. On May 19 – 21 at 8:00pm in Rose Theater, the world-renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will perform Swinging Music of Thad Jones, an interpretation of Thad Jones’s work, including new arrangements by Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra trombonist Vincent Gardner. For this concert in Rose Theater, special guests Billy Harper (tenor sax), Jerry Dodgion (alto sax) and Marc Cary (piano) will join the orchestra.
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Don Quixote Rides Again, With an Ellingtonian Sidekick
More than two hours of original jazz music was played at Rose Theater on Thursday night. It was shaped around stories from “Don Quixote” and scored for 15 musicians and 2 singers, with a professional actor reading about 5,000 words of Cervantes in and around 23 songs and instrumental sketches. It was ambitious, well played, deeply Ellingtonian - and completely indigestible.
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Wynton plays with Dave Douglas at Rose Theater
On March 9, 2005 at 8pm in Rose Theater, two trumpet virtuosos and one of today’s most distinct jazz vocalists will headline the All That Jazz: Now That’s HIP! concert sponsored by HIP Health Plan of New York.
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LCJO with Wynton Marsalis returns Full-Steam Ahead to Rose Theater
On February 24, 25 and 26, for a special series of jazz performances entitled Full-Steam Ahead, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (LCJO) revisits a time when the sounds of locomotives inspired jazz. The world-renowned orchestra brings the sharp-edged syncopations and hard-chugging rhythms inspired by America’s steam-driven locomotives to its new home, Frederick P. Rose Hall. Featuring former LCJO members Wycliffe Gordon (trombone) and Rodney Whitaker (bass), the LCJO explores how the locomotive onomatopoeia was reflected in the developing rhythms of jazz in the first half of the 20th century.
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Wynton Marsalis plays for the Village Vanguard 70th Anniversary
Next week, Wynton will perform with his quartet as part of the Village Vanguard‘s 70th-anniversary celebration. He will play on February 16, 2005 for two sets on 9 -11 PM
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With Feeling – Wynton Marsalis Jazzes Up Christmas For The Kids
Wynton Marsalis is the dean of contemporary American jazz. Besides his numerous artistic accomplishments as the chief of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra – the pre-eminent jazz band in the land – this year the trumpet master saw one of his life goals come to fruition: a permanent home for Jazz At Lincoln Center in the new Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle.
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Suite for Human Nature to be performed in New York City
On December 16, 17, 18 at 8:00pm, “Suite for Human Nature” will make its New York debut and kick off the Jazz at Lincoln Center holiday season at the organization’s new home, Frederick P. Rose Hall. A special matinee performance will be held on December 19 at 3:00pm.
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