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Mahogany Hall Stomp

Featuring the music of Wynton Marsalis
Duration: 2:35
October 18, 2008

Marsalis Jazzed About Genre's Future

October 4, 2008

Wynton Marsalis hardly needs an introduction. One of the most brilliant jazz trumpeters of our time, he's also an accomplished classical musician, composer and jazz historian. Before he won nine Grammy Awards, before he became the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize in music for his epic oratorio “Blood on the Fields," and before ...

Wynton Marsalis to Bring Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to Purdue

September 15, 2008

Wynton Marsalis will bring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to Purdue at 8 p.m. Oct. 3 for an evening of swinging big band music in Purdue's Elliott Hall of Music. The event is presented by Purdue Convocations as part of its Jazz Set series. A talk titled “Playing with Jazz Tradition" will precede the concert ...

Wynton Marsalis Moves Jazz to 'Higher Ground'

September 2, 2008

Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis says that music is the “art of the invisible" -- it is memory, intention and imagination. Marsalis explains his relationship to jazz in his new book, Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life. Jazz music is America's past and its potential summed up and sanctified and accessible ...

Wynton Marsalis in Conversation at 92nd Street Y

August 27, 2008

Wynton Marsalis believes that jazz can change all of our lives--artistically, politically, personally, and together as a society. On Tuesday, September 9, Wynton Marsalis comes to the 92nd Street Y for a “master class" on jazz and life, with NY1's Budd Mishkin. Marsalis discusses jazz as the quintessential American expression of personality and individuality. He reveals ...

Serendipitous: Willie Nelson Performs with Wynton Marsalis

July 11, 2008

JAZZ REVIEW Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl The performers, with guest Willie Nelson, displayed their versatility with a show that covered the range of American music. Wynton Marsalis describes the big jazz band as “the American orchestra." It's an intriguing and, in many ways, definitive identification of ...

Marsalis and His Big Band Shine Here in Ultra-Rare Club Gig

July 10, 2008

It was a heady night of firsts yesterday at Anthology. The plush, $6.5 million downtown supper club and live-music venue, which celebrated its first anniversary last month, hosted two sold-out concerts by trumpet great Wynton Marsalis and his 14-man Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JALCO). That this talent-packed big band was appearing before an audience of ...

Wynton Eldar and Willie at Hollywood Bowl

July 9, 2008

Wynton Marsalis, Eldar & Willie Nelson a rather eclectic lineup Features Marsalis, the nine-time Grammy winner and jazz world's highest-profile artist, country music legend Nelson (subbing for Natalie Cole, who had to cancel) and jazz piano prodigy Eldar along with Marsalis' Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood. 8 p.m. $1 ...

Wynton & Willie Two for the Road

July 4, 2008

Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson's “Two Men with the Blues" Available July 8 Willie must have 8 million versions of Georgia on My Mind in the can by now, and this bluesy duet with Marsalis doesn't crack the Top 1,000. But like the rest of the album, recorded during January 2007 performances at Jazz at Lincoln ...

Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men with the Blues

by Chris May
July 1, 2008

In case you missed it, back in 2006 singer and guitarist Willie Nelson--then 73 years young-- got busted in Louisiana. Highway police following Nelson's band bus noticed a strong smell of marijuana coming out of the windows, stopped the vehicle and found somewhere between one and a half and two pounds of weed and a bag ...