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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Vitoria Suite
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo Marciac, celebrata nella The Marciac Suite per sestetto, Wynton Marsalis ha trovato un porto franco europeo a Vitoria, Paesi Baschi, dove porta spesso la sua Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Il legame è ora celebrato da una lunga suite in dodici movimenti, tanti quante le battute del canonico giro di blues. Sulla compattezza dell'orchestra non c'è più molto da dire, anni di concerti, progetti, tour e incisioni hanno creato un'identità sonora come non si sentiva dai tempi delle big ...
Continue ReadingTake Five with Wynton Marsalis
by AAJ Staff
Status: Nine-time Grammy Award-winning jazz performer. DOB: October 18, 1961 In: New Orleans, LA Hobbies/Interests: “Play basketball. I like to read. I like to play chess." Favorite Movies: “[Pause]...see, it's so many. Let me see if I can...any Hitchcock. Elie Kazan's. John Ford. [Pause]...favorite movies...there's so many good ones...I can't remember the name. It has Andy Griffith in it. He plays like a man of the people that becomes corrupted. [Marsalis calls a friend ...
Continue ReadingMoving To Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life
by Florence Wetzel
Moving To Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life Wynton Marsalis with Geoffrey C. Ward 208 pages ISBN: 978-1-40006078-8 Random House 2008
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis' passionate and inspirational Moving To Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life is not only an ode to jazz, but a call to creativity in all its forms. It's a meditation on life and art, and an invitation to live an ...
Continue ReadingJazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Vitoria Suite
by Chris May
Does anyone over there realise how good they are? That's to paraphrase what tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins asked about British pianist Stan Tracey, who led the house band at Ronnie Scott's club in London during the 1960s. “Does anyone here realise how good he is?" was Rollins' actual question (and decades later, the endorsement is still wheeled out by British music journalists).So, does anyone in the US realise how good trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln ...
Continue ReadingWynton Marsalis: He and She
by Florence Wetzel
He and She is a full-bodied meditation on love and the complexities of the human heart. The CD is a rich offering of 12 Wynton Marsalis compositions as well as a long poem by Marsalis, interspersed between tracks and then read in its entirety at the end. Marsalis culminated 2007's From the Plantation to the Penitentiary (Blue Note) with a poem, and He and She finds him further exploring the marriage between jazz and poetry. It can ...
Continue ReadingWynton Marsalis: He and She
by Mark F. Turner
The expansive discography of Wynton Marsalis has covered a wealth of material including the fierce modern mainstream of Black Codes: From the Underground (Columbia, 1985), the three CD-set Blood On the Fields (Columbia, 1995) which won a Pulitzer award in 1997, and some bar-room fun in Two Men With the Blues (Blue Note, 2008) with singer Willie Nelson. Now the iconic jazz trumpeter/composer explores the subtle dynamics of relationship between a man and a woman in He and She, a ...
Continue ReadingWynton Marsalis with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at the Kimmel Center
by Victor L. Schermer
Jazz at Lincoln Center OrchestraWynton Marsalis, Music DirectorThe Kimmel Center for the Performing ArtsMarch 20, 2009
Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra made a return visit to the Kimmel Center with a full-house crowd on hand and an early Spring March wind in the air. Marsalis quickly indicated the underpinnings of the performance by saying, “We're just going to swing." Indeed, the group gave a lively and sometimes moving performance of heated big ...
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