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PBS and Chautauqua Institution Announce CHAUTAUQUA AT 150: WYNTON MARSALIS’ ALL RISE
Today at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, PBS and Chautauqua Institution announced the production of a new one-hour documentary film, CHAUTAUQUA AT 150: WYNTON MARSALIS’ ALL RISE, to air on PBS in early 2025. Keep reading »
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Watch Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration on PBS
On October 30, Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents: A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration will debut on PBS stations nationwide (check local listings). In this hour-long special—filmed in front of a sold-out audience at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater Keep reading »
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PBS to air Ken Burns’s “Jackie Robinson” on April 11 and 12, 2016
JACKIE ROBINSON, a new two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon, will air April 11 and 12, 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS. The film tells the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, who rose from humble origins to break baseball’s color barrier and waged a fierce lifelong battle for first-class citizenship for all African Americans that transcends even his remarkable athletic achievements. Keep reading »
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PBS NewsHour: Wynton Marsalis Pays Homage to Jazz’s Past by Investing in Its Future
Part-competition, part-celebration, 110 high school bands entered this year’s Essentially Ellington Jazz Competition, submitting recorded performances for the judges. Just 15 were chosen. Jeffrey Brown sits down with the man behind it all: jazz great Wynton Marsalis.
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Ken Burns Introduces Excerpts From His Latest Film “Prohibition”
Wynton Marsalis and Ken Burns continue their long time artistic collaboration on “Prohibition,” a three-part documentary directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. “Prohibition” tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The upcoming film series features original compositions and arrangements by Marsalis and others.
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U.S. Premiere of Swing Symphony to be Broadcast Live on PBS
Wednesday evening, September 22, will be a very special occasion. On that occasion Live From Lincoln Center will inaugurate its 35th anniversary season of presenting the arts from the stages of America’s premier Performing Arts center.
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Wynton to perform on Live from Lincoln Center on PBS
Tune in to PBS on Thursday, March 26 at 8:00 p.m.* for Live From Lincoln Center featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis at Frederick P. Rose Hall and hosted by 60 Minutes,… Keep reading »
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Wynton’s soundtrack for The War is out
On September 23, 2007, PBS will air “THE WAR”, a new seven-part documentary series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. The new film explores the history and horror of the Second World War from an American perspective by following the fortunes of so-called ordinary men and women who become caught up in one of the greatest cataclysms in human history.
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Wynton appearing tonight in a PBS homage to Louis Armstrong
Tonight’s PBS “American Masters” encore will show: “Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong”.
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Wynton will appear in the program on PBS to explain the difference between technique and nuance - and why Armstrong was so amazing at both. -
A Jazz Success Story with a Tinge of the Blues: At Lincoln Center, Defining the Canon Draws Fire
The scene at the Supper Club on West 47th Street seemed to evoke the glory days of jazz—an ebullient swing band playing classic Ellington tunes as dancers in period costumes rocketed around the dance floor. Keep reading »