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Wynton Marsalis (MAHR'-sahl-is) will receive the Legion of Honor, the highest award bestowed by the French government.
It's opening day of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and trumpeter-composer Wynton Marsalis is set to take the stage.
Wynton Marsalis didn't bring his trumpet to the podium during Wednesday night's poetry benefit at Lincoln Center. But he did hum a few bars as he half-sang, half-recited Sterling A. Brown's "Riverbank Blues."
Musicians Josh Groban, Wynton Marsalis and Linda Ronstadt pressed Congress on Tuesday for more public funding for the arts to help sustain programs during the nation's economic slump.
Aaron Flagg, a jazz trumpeter who has played with Wynton Marsalis and recorded with Roberta Flack, has been named the first black dean of The Hartt School in Connecticut.
Wynton Marsalis doesn't leave home without his trumpet or book of poems, and while on tour, he'll spend the late night hours talking about music and verse with the young members of his band. On his new album, "He and She," Marsalis combines his passions for jazz and poetry in a rumination on the relationship between a man and a woman through the years.
Wynton Marsalis will be turning the House That Jazz Built at the Time Warner Center into the House of the Lord when he premieres his first jazz Mass, which blends the gospel and jazz traditions in a celebration of the 200th anniversary of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York State's oldest African-American congregation.
Marian McPartland celebrated her 90th birthday in a style befitting the "Grande Dame of Piano Jazz" with a little help from friends like Norah Jones and Wynton Marsalis at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
On Wynton Marsalis' upcoming CD, he criticizes political leadership in America, cultural corruption, and sex and violence in rap — and that's just on one song. "I don't speak from outside, I'm not finger-pointing," the 45-year-old jazz great told The Associated Press in a recent interview.
Oh When CODEPINK Came Marching In (To New Orleans On Eve's V-Day)For my entire life - years before Hurricane Katrina - I fantasized about New Orleans. I dreamed of being decadent in the French Quarter in clubs where my music heroes played. I dreamed of tasting the food, studying the architecture, hearing the accents, and being cradled in t …
Dennis Irwin, 56, Bassist Popular in New York Jazz, Is Dead Dennis Irwin, who for more than 30 years was a much-in-demand New York jazz bassist and whose recent illness became a rallying point for jazz musicians without medical insurance, died on Monday in Manhattan.
There are two questions that come to mind when approaching this question. First, what constitutes a great jazz artist? And secondly, how do we know that they are a great jazz artist? This is more a matter of opinion than what can be based on fact.
Just a couple of guys dressed in the bluesWillie Nelson was halfway through a flinty and casually gripping guitar solo on "Rainy Day Blues" when everything clicked into place. It was his fifth song at the Allen Room on Friday night, and the bright young rhythm section onstage was finally locking in. At Mr.
Someone once said that "The Devil has all the best tunes". Despite my best efforts I could not find out who actually said that. I know that Prefab Sprout released a single of the same name and I'm fairly sure that the quote is attributed to "Rock and Roll".
One-Man Band: Marsalis at Lincoln CenterMarsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center. Can you have one without the other?
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