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Article: Live Review

Wynton Marsalis Honored at Marian Anderson 2015 Awards Concert

by Victor L. Schermer
November 16, 2015

Wynton Marsalis Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Marian Anderson Award Concert Philadelphia, PA November 10, 2015 On this celebratory occasion, Wynton Marsalis became the second bona fide jazz musician (the other being Quincy Jones) to win the prestigious Marian Anderson Award given to “a show business individual who ...

News: Performance / Tour

A Quadruple Return for a Man Doubly Missed

February 5, 2010

For a certain breed of New York jazz fan the alto-saxophonist Wess Anderson is the one that got away. Nearly twice. Mr. Anderson, a Brooklyn native, emerged in the late 1980s as a sideman with Wynton Marsalis, and later a charter member of Mr. Marsaliss efforts at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Fondly known as Warmdaddy, he ...

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Article: Opinion

Let's Tribute Ourselves

by Vincent Gardner
December 15, 2009

Like many other jazz musicians, I am fortunate enough to travel all over the globe and present this wonderful music. While I haven't been playing professionally for an extremely long time--only about 15 years--during those years I have seen quite a bit of change in the world and on the jazz scene. Not that it compares ...

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Article: Interview

Antonio Ciacca: Bringing People Together Through Swing

by John Barron
June 9, 2009

Antonio Ciacca knows a thing or two about multi-tasking. The New York-based pianist is a tireless statesman of jazz, composing music for his own small groups, arranging for various big bands and working as Director of Programming for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Adding to all of this, Ciacca and his wife are busy raising five children ...