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Wynton wrote the foreword for the new Louis Armstrong DVD
This month saw the release of the Jazz Icons series by San Diego’s Reelin’ In The Years.
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Available on nine DVDs that will be released in a boxed set, the series features previously unreleased European performances by such legends as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. -
Wynton Marsalis puts Seattle jazz kids to the test
“When I tell you something,” said jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, wearing a suit and tie Saturday afternoon at the Paramount Theatre, “it’s with love, like you were my own son or daughter. Don’t take it as negative, but I am going to tell you something.” Keep reading »
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Marsalis hits the high notes in small-group show
“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 »
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Happy Birthday Wynton !
Today is Wynton’s 45th birthday.
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Date changed for Wynton Marsalis Quintet
On October 24, the Wynton Marsalis Quintet is no longer performing at the Mondavi Center in Davis, CA but at the Napa Valley Opera House in Napa, CA.
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Video: Wynton visiting the New Jersey State Prison
In August 2005, Wynton visited the maximum security prison in Trenton to meet the inmates, who are members of a group called the Jazz Allstars Band, after receiving a letter from Jerald Albrecht, a convicted robber who plays a mean guitar.
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Summer 2003: Wynton playing in Gardone Riviera
We’ve just re-digitized some clips from our old web site, and they are now iPod ready.
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Wynton playing for Velocity Broadcasting tonight
Tonight, jazz fans—at least a select few—will get to hear Marsalis when Pittsburgh-based Velocity Broadcasting airs a 90-minute concert and commentary session with Marsalis and his quintet live from WQED. The event also will feature a performance from Matt Savage, a 14-year-old pianist with autism, and Omega Love, a Pittsburgh-based group that released a self-titled album earlier this year.
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Our fan club on Flickr.com
We have just setted up an account on www.flickr.com to share all the shots took at concerts with Wynton. You can check the photos from last August London's concert at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. Already… Keep reading »
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Channeling the Granddaddy of Skid-Dat-De-Dat
In the recorded literature of jazz — and of American music, really — there is no greater document than the stack of three-minute sides made by Louis Armstrong for the OKeh label in the mid- to late 1920’s. Leading two successive bands billed as his Hot Five (and, briefly, a Hot Seven), Armstrong delivered a series of performances bursting with bravura and invention, in the process introducing a heroic new language of improvisation.
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