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Red Hot Holiday Stomp with Wynton
Wynton Marsalis and friends will bring New Orleans swing to New York for the holiday season!
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Live at The House of Tribes nominated for a Grammy
Wynton’s latest album, “Live at House of Tribes”, has been nominated for a Grammy in “Best Jazz Instrumental Album” category.
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Higher Ground CD reviewed by Washington Post
Hitting Katrina From Two Directions
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There are nearly 10 benefit albums with Hurricane Katrina on their minds, and doubtless more are coming. Bring ‘em on. In theory, at least, when it comes to raising relief funds through music, everyone wins. -
Photoreport from Fall Gala 2005 at JALC
The Jazz at Lincoln Center web site, has been recently updated with new photos about Wynton and LCJO at the "Fall Gala 2005". Here is the gallery Keep reading »
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Wynton played for Tony Bennett in Washington
Yesterday, December 4, Tina Turner and Tony Bennett, two legends of American music, earned accolades from a broad array of pop and jazz stars during the Kennedy Center Honors. Tony Bennett was saluted… Keep reading »
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Wynton and LCJO tours Ellington’s Nutcracker
Wynton and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra will tour the Eastern U.S. with a special repertoire for the 2005 holiday season. For the first half of the concerts, the big band will perform selections from Duke Ellington’s “The Nutcracker”.
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Wynton will sign copies of his new book
Wynton will be in Brooks Brothers’ Madison Avenue store on Monday, December 5th at 7:00 p.m. to sign copies of his new book, Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits
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Wynton explains: What is New Orleans Jazz ?
Jazz for Young People: What is New Orleans Jazz?, hosted by Wynton Marsalis, will feature musicians performing and offering school age children the opportunity to learn about the birthplace of jazz.
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In this engaging narrative performance, Wynton stirs up the musical melting pot that gave us jazz. Everyone is invited to stomp, clap, and sing along to the polyphony of New Orleans jazz. -
Wynton wrote an introduction on a new book about Katrina
Hurricane Katrina: The Storm That Changed America is a collection of photographs and essays by the staff and editors of the respected news magazine, Time.
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The book is organized in a day-by-day chronology of the storm, from the time it swiped south Florida until its devastating landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi, and Time’s writers tell the story of the storm in their reports from the scene. -
Higher Ground benefit CD is in stores now
Today, Blue Note Records released Higher Ground, a CD that documents Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert, a landmark evening of musical offering that was mounted by Wynton on September 17, less than three weeks after Hurricane Katrina imparted its devastation upon the Gulf Coast.
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