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Wynton Marsalis / LCJO at the Kimmel Center: December 11, 2005

Read "Wynton Marsalis / LCJO at the Kimmel Center: December 11, 2005" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer

by Victor L. Schermer

Wynton Marsalis / Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, PA December 11, 2005 On this wintry Sunday evening, three musical phenomena converged at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia: Wynton Marsalis, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (hereinafter “LCJO ), and “The Harlem Nutcracker, a composition of Duke Ellington and Billy ...

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Wynton Marsalis: Live at the House of Tribes

Read "Live at the House of Tribes" reviewed by Greg Thomas

by Greg Thomas

The most exhilarating live date by Marsalis since his mammoth seven-CD release Live at the Village Vanguard in 1999, Live at the House of Tribes is a brilliant blowing session captured in 2002 at a tiny club in New York's Lower East Side that he frequents with a small group every winter. The ...

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Wynton Marsalis: Live at the House of Tribes

Read "Live at the House of Tribes" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner

The undeniable fact about trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, whether you're a fan or critic, is that he plays as if every note is his last-- with purpose, verve, and total commitment. This consummate energy is documented on this new live release which was recorded in December 2002 at the House of Tribes on New York's Lower East ...

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Wynton Marsalis: Unforgivable Blackness

Read "Unforgivable Blackness" reviewed by Riel Lazarus

by Riel Lazarus

Who better to invoke the past in tune than Wynton Marsalis? After all, the stick-in-the-mud trumpet virtuoso reveres the days of yore as few others playing today, proffering them nightly before sellout crowds the world round. So when the gig came up to score Ken Burns' new documentary, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack ...

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Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra featuring Wynton Marsalis: A Love Supreme

Read "A Love Supreme" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

In the last year there's been a resurgence of interest in John Coltrane's epochal A Love Supreme. First saxophonist Branford Marsalis' quartet released a live DVD with an incendiary version of the suite, demonstrating with the same instrumentation how an ensemble could be reverent without being imitative, capturing the essence of the piece without sounding like ...

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The Magic Hour

By Wynton Marsalis

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Feeling of Jazz; You and Me; Free To Be; Baby, I Love You; Big Fat Hen; Skipping; Rosie Rose-Rosalee; The Magic Hour.

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The 2004 Election Blues Session

By Wynton Marsalis

Label: Independent Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1.Watergate Blues 2.Recession Hell No! 3.Power to the Peeps 4.Deficit Scam 5.RIAA Blues 6.War What is it good for?) 7.A Change is Gonna Come

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Unforgivable Blackness

By Wynton Marsalis

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: What Have You Done?; Ghost in the House; Jack Johnson Two-Step; But Deep Down; Love & Hate; High Society; Careless Love; New Orleans Bump; Trouble My Soul; Deep Creek; The Johnson 2-Step; Rattlesnake Tail Swing; Weary Blues; Troubles My Soul; Johnson Two-Step; Fire in the Night; Morning Song; I'll Sing My Song; Buddy Bolden's Blues; The Last Bell; We'll Meet Again Someday.

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Wynton Marsalis: Unforgivable Blackness

Read "Unforgivable Blackness" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella

The story of Jack Johnson deserves to be accompanied by music that is majestic, bold, daring, and passionate. The boxer, whose fate has been depicted in a new film by Ken Burns, led a life that was filled with happiness, success, romance, tragedy, and misery. Wynton Marsalis' music for The Rise and Fall of ...

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Bill Clinton and Wynton Marsalis: The 2004 Election Blues Session

Read "The 2004 Election Blues Session" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner

Politicians and jazz make strange bedfellows With this being a Presidential election year the focus will definitely be on the economy, homeland security, and a host of other issues. Candidates and their respective parties are already on the road to a very nasty and heated election. While the press delights in negative campaigns, profile attacks, and ...


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