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A euphoric evening led by Wynton Masalis
When Wynton Marsalis’s début album appeared on CBS Records in 1982, with its moody, pensive black and white cover portrait of the then twenty-year-old trumpeter, few could have predicted where his career was headed. Sure, he had performed Hayden’s Trumpet Concerto with the New Orleans Philharmonic at fourteen, and further honed his craft in the trumpet chair of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Keep reading »
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2023-24 Season Opener: “Beyond Black Codes” on Sept. 21-23, and Blue Engine Records Re-Issues 5 Wynton Marsalis Albums
The world premiere of Beyond Black Codes featuring big band arrangements of songs from Wynton Marsalis’s highly influential small group albums will open Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2023-24 season on Sept. 21-23, 2023, at 8:00pm in Rose Theater. Keep reading »
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How Suite It Is, Or Six Flourishes For Trumpet From Master Marsalis
MONTREAL — Bebop revivalist, classical virtuoso, educator, and music director, Wynton Marsalis could be called a man of many careers had he never written a note. Yet the American trumpeter is a prolific composer, often in an idiom that subtly combines the traditions of classical and jazz. Keep reading »
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Musician Wynton Marsalis: A good fortune
Wynton Marsalis jumps onto our Zoom call and introduces himself before proceeding to play the trumpet. “I was just playing the trumpet call,” he says. “That was just for you.” Keep reading »
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An evening (and morning) with one of jazz’s all time greats
Can a trumpet actually sing? Can a jazz orchestra really speak to you? If the trumpet is played by and the orchestra is led by Wynton Marsalis, then the answers to both questions are a profound yes. Keep reading »
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Jazz giant plans to stir up a storm in Canberra
Few musicians on the world stage occupy a position of such responsibility as Marsalis, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the first jazz composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music and still the only musician to have won a Grammy Award in both jazz and classical categories in the same year – he was just 22 at the time. Keep reading »
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Blue Engine Records Announces Release of Wynton Marsalis Plays Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Sevens
On August 4, 2023, on what would have been Louis Armstrong’s 122 birthday—although many celebrate the trailblazer on July 4, as he was lovingly hailed as a “firecracker baby” by his mother—Blue Engine Records proudly releases Wynton Marsalis Plays Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Sevens. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Barbican — a century of jazz history
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra signalled its balance of orchestral jazz spectacle and nightclub intimacy from the start. A fanfare of trumpets was answered by a sheen of reeds before a froth of swapped phrases unfolded over springy walking-bass swing. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis to deliver the Nexus Lecture 2023
Music has the power to elevate our quality of life, to connect people and broaden our consciousness’, says world-renowned jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and educator Wynton Marsalis. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis: Symphony No 4, ‘The Jungle’ album review — irrepressible energy
There is no holding back Wynton Marsalis. As well as being a virtuoso trumpeter and leading jazz musician, he has thrown himself into composing major new works in the classical tradition, including an ambitious range of concertos and symphonies. Keep reading »
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