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An Epic History of Black Experience, in Music and Movement
Garth Fagan and Wynton Marsalis have been friends for more than 20 years, and since 1991 have collaborated frequently. Wednesday night at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, to open a run through Sunday of Garth Fagan Dance, Mr. Marsalis and his septet played live for a lovely revival of their first collaboration, “Griot New York,” first seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Photo report: Wynton honoured with the National Medal of Arts at White House
Yesterday, President George W. Bush honored Wynton and other authors, musicians and historians from New York and elsewhere, with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal.
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The fan club beginnings… Part VI (The legend of Buddy Bolden)
..Buddy Bolden could play so loud, he could make the rain stay up in the sky.
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Wynton to receive the National Medal of Arts
U.S. President George Bush plans to present the 2005 National Humanities Medals and National Medals of Arts in Oval Office ceremonies Thursday.
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Jazz ABZ is now available in bookstores
Wynton has collaborated with illustrator Paul Rogers and jazz historian Phil Schaap to create a children’s book…while Rogers developed the concept for the book, he sought the help of Wynton to bring it to fruition.
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The Return of the Broadway Boogie-Woogie
THE choreographer Garth Fagan and Wynton Marsalis, the co-founder and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, go way back. They met in the 1980’s when Mr. Fagan, a jazz aficionado, took his dancers to New York clubs to hear Mr. Marsalis play. “I knew we could learn from him,” Mr. Fagan said in a recent conference call with Mr. Marsalis. “I sensed we saw things the same way.” Eventually he invited Mr. Marsalis to a rehearsal at the company’s headquarters in Rochester.
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New York Diarist: Strength in Swing
Immediately following the landing of Hurricane Katrina, I received hundreds of phone calls from all over the world. They offered sympathy and resources. I don’t get those phone calls now. The ones I receive now are rife with disgust at bureaucratic fumbling, with rage at an unspecified they who are in charge of everything from predicting which levees would break to choosing which people will return. They made it happen.
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Wynton at Norwich Free Academy
Yesterday, Wynton visited the Norwich Free Academy as part of the school's Sesquicentennial Anniversary Music Celebration. Wynton spoke to students and presented a critique of the student jazz band.… Keep reading »
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Wynton and Garth Fagan Dance performing Griot New York
On November 9, 2005, the choreographer Garth Fagan celebrates his 35th-anniversary season with a one-night-only reprise of Griot New York, with live music by the Wynton Marsalis Septet, at Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall.
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The fan club beginnings… Part V (Second line with Olympia Brass Band)
Perugia, 1993.
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Wynton, with Wycliffe Gordon and Wessel Anderson playing the Second Line with Olympia Brass Band.
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