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Wynton playing Green Chimneys live at House of Tribes
Thanks to our lovely friends Dominique, we are able to show you two videos about Wynton playing *Green Chimneys* live at House of Tribes.
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The Band Strikes Up to Play a Few of Its Favorite Things
Some concerts by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra adhere to thematic prescriptions: the legacy of a single composer, for instance, or the sound of a specific place and time. “The Songs We Love,” which the band performed in more than a dozen cities leading up to a three-night stand at the Rose Theater, advanced a somewhat less focused agenda.
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A Few of Our Favorite Things
When Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra climaxed their concert Thursday night at the Rose Theater with “Rhapsody in Blue,” they were, in a very literal sense, settling an old score. The last time the JALCO played the “Rhapsody” was in November, at an all-Gershwin Gala. That treatment featured the pianist Marcus Roberts as star soloist, but, through no fault of the orchestra or Mr. Roberts, it had to be the worst version of Gershwin’s classic that I’ve ever heard. Keep reading »
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Download the fifth song from the web-album: Here…Now
Here…Now is the first web-only album released by Wynton Marsalis.
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Plantation Polemics: From Slavery to Supercapitalism
With his vexed views on the subject of “tradition” Wynton Marsalis, who graced Jazzwise’s first cover ten years ago, has become the epitome of the starchy jazz conservative that many would-be jazz liberals love to hate. Keep reading »
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One more lesson from Marsalis: masterclass at Onondaga Community College
Wynton Marsalis shared so many insights during his visit to OCC on Tuesday morning that even after yesterday’s Listen Up item and today’s story in The Post-Standard, I have one more observation jumping out of my notebook.
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Wynton nominated for: Montblanc de la Culture Award
The Tribeca Film Festival announced the sponsors for the 2007 Festival, which includes the addition of marquee brands AARP, Axium Entertainment, Montblanc, Target and Yahoo!, as well as the continued support of numerous returning sponsors, including Founding Sponsor American Express.
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Marsalis and company play ‘Songs We Love’
If you were lucky enough to score a ticket to Saturday night’s Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis concert, then you heard a pristine performance from a group of world-class musicians. The program presented by the orchestra was called “The Songs We Love,” and it was filled with well-known Jazz and Big Band standards.
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Video: Wynton and Drue Kataoka at JALC
On December 14, 2006, Wynton hosted a spectacular event for Around the World New York at Dizzy’s Jazz Club at JALC.
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Audio podcast of Wynton’s speech at Arts Advocacy Day
Arts Advocacy Day was officially kicked off at a Congressional Arts Breakfast on Capitol Hill, organized by Americans for the Arts in conjunction with the Congressional Arts Caucus.
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