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Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces 28th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival Winners 2023
Jazz at Lincoln Center* today announced the three top-placing high school jazz bands in the nation and more than 35 other individual and section awards in the prestigious 28th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center and the hallmark program for the largest jazz education network in the world. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Pays Homage to Three of America’s Most Influential Jazz Artists - Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dave Brubeck
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performs its last show of the 2022-23 concert season with a performance that pays homage to three of America’s most influential figures in jazz Keep reading »
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University of Michigan’s 2023 Spring Commencement Speech
Class of 23. You have finally made it to the finish line, congratulations. As you congregate here to the rightful chorus of kudos from family, friends, mentors, professors and others, please take in the size, the grandeur, and the pomp of this - your graduation from the mighty University of Michigan. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis, “Black Codes” and Thoughts on the Highway
It is midafternoon on a recent weekday and jazz legend Wynton Marsalis is driving across the Southwest, taking the call on speakerphone that his 1985 album, “Black Codes (From the Underground),” has been inducted into the 2023 class of the National Recording Registry. Keep reading »
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“Black Codes (From The Underground)” among 25 additions to National Recording Registry 2023
On Wednesday the Library announced 25 audio recordings — the oldest dating back to 1908 — that are being inducted to the Registry, a compendium of sound recordings deemed representative of America’s artistic, cultural and historic treasures. Keep reading »
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Review | Wynton Marsalis Septet, a Horn of Plenty
Masterful trumpeter and band leader Wynton Marsalis made good on his tradition of an annual visit to Santa Barbara, again hosted by UCSB Arts & Lectures at the Granada Theatre last week. Keep reading »
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Seven Steps to Wynton, at Santa Barbara’s Granada Theatre
For many years now, Santa Barbara’s concert calendar of world-class touring artists has featured famed Wynton Marsalis, as a premier trumpeter and fearless leader of his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Special Guest Paquito D’Rivera Perform World Premiere of Elio Villafranca and Edmar Castañedas’ “Tres Aguas & Colors of Colombia”
Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) presents the world premiere of Tres Aguas & Colors of Colombia—new works commissioned by JALC created by global jazz composers Cuban pianist Elio Villafranca (Tres Aguas) and Colombian harpist Edmar Castañeda (Colors of Colombia), and brought to life by The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and special guest Paquito d’Rivera in Rose Theater on April 14-15 at 8pmET. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces 2023-24 Season of World Premiere Commissions, Unique Collaborations, and Festivals
Jazz at Lincoln Center and Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis proudly announce the organization’s 36th season of concerts featuring the organization’s customary mix of world premiere commissions and collaborations with iconic guest artists, as well as celebrations of milestones and major figures in jazz and its related genres. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis announced as 2023 commencement speaker at University of Michigan
The University of Michigan has announced that Wynton Marsalis, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, will be the 2023 Spring Commencement speaker at the April 29 commencement ceremony, which will be held at the Michigan Stadium. Keep reading »