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Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. By creating and performing an expansive range of brilliant new music for quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras, tap dance to ballet, Wynton has expanded the vocabulary for jazz and created a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers.

James Brandon Lewis, Wynton Marsalis, Dina Ramirez, Lee Pardini & New Releases

By LUDOVICO GRANVASSU

This week we go from Wynton Marsalis' ruminations on the status of our society, to Teodross Avery's and the Analog Players Society's reflections on Monk. In between a world tour with stops in South Africa, Guatemala, Norway, Canada, and on two sides of the country, LA and NYC, for another great tasting menu of the best ...

Walter White: BB XL

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

Born in a musical family near Detroit and classically trained at Juilliard, trumpet and flugelhorn player Walter White keeps a hectic schedule as leader of Atlantic Bridge, the Walter White Jazz Quartet, Walter White & Small Medium @ Large, and of the fusion ensemble IFUNU; as a member of the Beige Trio; and as lead trumpet ...

The Word from Johannesburg, Part II: Brenda Sisane and The Art of Sunday

By KARL ACKERMANN

Brenda Sisane has been in broadcasting in Johannesburg, South Africa for over twenty-five years while simultaneously heading up her International Relations and Creative Arts public relations firm. Ms. Sisane is also CEO of SPIN Productions and its Non-Profit sister organization, The SPIN Foundation NPC, which both serve the international and domestic arts and music and culture ...

Soul Songs, Mose Songs & COVID Aid for Djibouti

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

Bahama Soul Club Bohemia After Dawn Buyú Records 2020 Soulful original music laced with judicious and striking samples, Bohemia After Dawn serves a textbook example of music that packs an impact larger than the sum of its parts. Written, arranged, produced and performed by Oliver Belz ...

This Is Bop: Jon Hendricks And The Art Of Vocal Jazz

By IAN PATTERSON

This Is Bop: Jon Hendricks And The Art Of Vocal Jazz Peter Jones 263 Pages ISBN: 978 1 78179 874 4 Equinox Publishing 2020 Few are the jazz singers accorded the fanfare usually reserved for the music's great instrumentalists. Jon Hendricks was one, taking scat and vocalese to unprecedented ...

Fabrizio Bosso: Il Quartetto come condivisione totale

By PAOLO MARRA

Dal primo disco a suo nome uscito nel 2000 dal titolo Fast Flight Fabrizio Bosso si è imposto come uno dei migliori trombettisti a livello internazionale in virtù non soltanto delle sue ben note doti tecniche ma anche per la sua versatilità, dentro e fuori l'ambito jazz. Tra i suoi vari progetti, il Fabrizio Bosso Quartet ...

2020: The Year in Jazz

By KEN FRANCKLING

The COVID-19 pandemic put the jazz world in a tailspin, just like the world at large, in 2020. And there is plenty of uncertainty going into the new year about what “new normal: might emerge from the darkness. International Jazz Day, like so many other things, became an online virtual event this time around. Pianist Keith ...

Time to Swing

By JOE FARNSWORTH

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: The Good Shepherd; Hesitation; Darn That Dream; Down by the Riverside; One for Jimmy Cobb; Lemuria; Prelude to a Kiss; Monk’s Dream; The Star-Crossed Lovers; Time Was.

The Legacy of Wayne Shorter

By RUSSELL PERRY

Wayne Shorter began composing for the Jazz Messengers in 1959 and over the past 60 years has amassed perhaps the most significant catalog of jazz compositions of his time. Many of his, roughly, one hundred compositions are standards of the current repertoire. In this hour of Jazz at 100 Today!, we'll explore recent renditions of his ...