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Wynton Marsalis and More Celebrate the Sounds of Post-Apartheid South African Jazz in New York
The story of South African jazz has been told in venues across New York City since the ‘60s, when the likes of Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba came to the town as exiles from Johannesburg. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis strikes a mellow note
As a guest of the Market Theatre’s 6/12 Conversation series on Tuesday, he was a model of self-effacing modesty: a man who’s still learning (“Art Blakey told me I sounded ‘sad’—and he was right”), who’s made more than his share of mistakes, who owes what he is to generations of trumpet-players as well as to his family and community. It was impossible not to warm to his humanity and humour. Keep reading »