News Updates – The Magic Hour

Wynton Marsalis performs on “A Prairie Home Companion”

Posted on April 5th, 2009 in Concerts | 7

Wynton Marsalis and his Quintet performed on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor at New York City’s Town Hall on Saturday night. The Quintet played three tunes: School Boy (from He and She), Number 8 (from Music, Deep Revers In My Soul), Free to Be (from The Magic Hour). You may still have a chance to listen to this broadcast in your area.

Wynton’s trumpet solo transcriptions are now available for purchase

Posted on June 5th, 2008 in Music | 5

The first series of Wynton’s most famous trumpet solos is now available for purchase. The solos are available in B Flat and in concert pitch.
They cost $5 only and are in PDF format. Following your purchase you will be able to download the music to your computer and print right in your home. The available solo transcriptions are: Black Codes, Delfeayo’s Dilemma, Later, Big Fat Hen and Free to Be.

Wynton’s solos transcriptions to be available for purchase

Posted on May 10th, 2008 in Music | 9

Due to overwhelming requests, we are pleased to announce that we will be making some of Wynton’s most famous trumpet solos available for purchase.
The solos will be available in B Flat and in concert pitch. They will cost $5 only and will be in PDF format. Following your purchase you will be able to download the music to your computer and print right in your home.

The Wynton Marsalis Quintet: live from Abbey Road Studios

Posted on March 1st, 2007 in Video | 16

On August 4, 2006, Wynton was in London with his quintet to record the show entitled “Live from Abbey Road”. Check out a video from the performance:

Sizzling backup a bonus gift on jazzman’s birthday

Posted on October 23rd, 2006 in Review | 2

The coolest shindig in town Wednesday night had to be Wynton Marsalis’s 46th birthday concert. About 1,050 Victorians celebrated with the most famous jazz trumpeter alive, joining his quintet to sing Happy Birthday to the boss.

Marsalis, natty in a tan three-piece suit, got into the fun himself on this unplanned encore with a solo spanning buttery bop flurries and echoes of Dixieland. Then, after offering a few notes to the audience sitting stage right, the trumpeter—seeming both pleased and faintly embarrassed—strolled off.

Marsalis hits the high notes in small-group show

Posted on October 22nd, 2006 in Review

“If I see something and you see something, it’s there,” explained trumpeter Wynton Marsalis Saturday, during his richly satisfying show at the Paramount Theatre. “And if it’s there, we’re both there, too. So there’s no ‘they.’ That’s why [this tune] is called ‘Find Me.’ “   Keep reading »

Video: Rehearsals at Ronnie Scott’s

Posted on August 10th, 2006 in Video | 29

Finally we have completed the video-editing on digital tapes, and are ready to show you the awesome video-clips about Wynton rehearsing with his quintet at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, on August 2-3 2006.

Marsalis plays hall to perfection

Posted on November 3rd, 2005 in Review

TROY—Wynton Marsalis is no fool. He knows how good the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall sounds.

He barely noticed the microphone put up in front of him Wednesday night, instead opting to play from any position on the stage he chose, with the sound still carrying to every corner.

Marsalis, quintet shine

Posted on November 2nd, 2005 in Review | 1

Wynton Marsalis skipped back to his 2004 CD, ‘‘The Magic Hour,” for most of the material his quintet played at Sanders Theatre on Sunday, passing over the covers that fuel the more recent ‘‘Live at the House of Tribes” in favor of the trumpeter’s whimsical originals.