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Wynton Marsalis: My jazzy New York
He may have been born in the Big Easy, but once Wynton Marsalis hit the Big Apple, there was no going back. Now 53, the nine-time Grammy-winning trumpeter, composer and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center still marvels at his first sight of Manhattan, when he was 17 and auditioning for Juilliard.
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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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Wynton’s Blues - The Atlantic Monthly (March 2003)
Manhattan is empty during the last week of August, and the kind of emptiness it achieves is like that of the mind during meditation—a temporary, unnatural purity. On a Tuesday evening in late August of 2001 I was wandering around Greenwich Village and ended up at the Village Vanguard.
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Marsalis’s Stylishly Solid Septet, Feeling Right at Home
When the Wynton Marsalis Septet played the theme of Thelonious Monk’s ‘‘Hackensack’’ on Tuesday night at the Village Vanguard, every quarter of the four-horn front line carried a controlled, distinct weight. Each musician projected a particular volume and tone, and the sum was a fine, calibrated mix. You could hear it all and marvel at the craft in it. Keep reading »
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It’s the End of the Riff for Wynton Marsalis’s Septet
Wynton Marsalis made news in his first set on Tuesday night at the Village Vanguard. Before he began to play, the trumpeter and band leader announced that this week’s engagement would be the last for his septet, one of the most influential and active bands in jazz. Keep reading »