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Wynton Marsalis: Blowing up a storm
When Wynton Marsalis steps on stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York next month, he will have achieved recognition the likes of which no jazz musician has received before. Others have been honoured with monuments or awards. Dizzy Gillespie famously performed his tune “Salt Peanuts” with Jimmy Carter at the White House. Keep reading »
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Video: Rehearsals at Ronnie Scott’s
Finally we have completed the video-editing on digital tapes, and are ready to show you the awesome video-clips about Wynton rehearsing with his quintet at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, on August 2-3 2006.
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Wynton Marsalis And Hurricane Katrina Anniversary Events
Nine-time Grammy Award-winning musician and New Orleans native Wynton Marsalis returns to New Orleans to commemorate Hurricane Katrina and help support the cultural infrastructure of a city devastated one year ago. Keep reading »
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Photos: Wynton playing at Ronnie Scott’s in London
We just came back from London, and are ready to show you new and exciting photos from Wynton’s concerts at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London. (The video clip are coming soon !)
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Wynton Marsalis playing tonight at Ronnie Scott’s
Tonight (and tomorrow) Wynton is playing at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London.
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Photos from Vitoria-Gasteiz 2006
Thanks to our dear friend Fernando, we got new and exciting photos about Wynton at the concert with Paco de Lucia, and at the presentation of his bronze statue at Parque de la Florida (Vitoria, Spain)
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Wynton about the three-day Katrina observance
New Orleans will observe the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as only America’s most musical city can, with a jazz funeral.
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Wynton Marsalis and Mayor Ray Nagin announced Friday afternoon the three-day observance, set for Aug. 27-29, promising details later.
Wynton and the city’s musicians will lead the procession from the Convention Center to the Superdome in the tradition of a jazz funeral. The grand marshal will be Lt. Gen. Russell Honore, who arrived the Thursday after the Aug. 29 storm to lead the federal troops who followed. -
Bill Charlap Remembers Thelonious Monk, a Revolutionary Who Knew How to Swing
Early in the course of “Brilliant Corners,” the 92nd Street Y’s concert of Thelonious Monk’s music on Thursday night, the pianist Bill Charlap offered a succinct appreciation of Monk’s singular place in jazz. “He was a revolutionary within a revolution,” Mr. Charlap said. The revolution, he went on to explain, was bebop, which Monk helped foment but never fully embraced.
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A benefit production of Jazz ABZ
The Community Partnership for Protecting Children and Prevent Child Abuse - Catoosa present a benefit production of JAZZ A∙B∙Z, a musical revue based on the book by Wynton Marsalis.
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Video: Wynton jamming at Vitoria Jazz Festival 2006
Check out two new videos of Wynton jamming with members of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in Vitoria 2006. Enjoy !
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