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Wynton Marsalis invites you to join him for a (not so) silent film – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
We immediately catch up a bit, noting that the last time we spoke — or, more accurately, Zoomed — was right after his “The Ever Fonky Lowdown” album with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra came out in 2020. Of course, Zoom was the standard form of communication back in those days, just months into a COVID-19 pandemic that sent much of the world into lockdown and social distancing mode.
Review: The JLCO’s CONTEMPORARY JAZZ MASTERPIECES at Jazz At Lincoln Center – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Wynton Marsalis is a longtime legend of contemporary jazz. His 1997 work Blood on the Fields, a three-disc-long oratorio about slaves escaping to freedom, was the first jazz composition (and first non-classical composition) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, paving the way for subsequent winners such as Henry Threadgill’s In for a Penny, In for a Pound, legendary saxophonist Ornette Coleman’s Sound Grammar, as well as the only non-classical, non-jazz winner, Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN.
Wynton Marsalis on music, Louis Armstrong, and his early funk band days – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer Wynton Marsalis grew up as a fan of jazz pioneer and fellow New Orleans trumpeter/composer Armstrong, the subject of the national “Louis” silent-film-with-live-music-tour Marsalis and his 13-piece band are now embarked upon.
At Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dave Chappelle Rallies to Keep ‘Tradition Alive’ – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Outside the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Wednesday night, hundreds of people in shimmering gowns and velvet tuxes waited for the program to begin. They snacked on popcorn from gold pinstriped bags and sipped cocktails in front of a wall lined with giant black-and-white photos of the jazz pianist and composer Duke Ellington.
Wynton Marsalis Accompanies Silent Film Louis on Tour - The Syncopated Times – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Before films began to talk, in the late 1920s, live musicians delivered the soundtracks for silent films. This was sometimes a single pianist or organist, sometimes a larger ensemble. We know that some jazz musicians, including Fats Waller and Count Basie, began their careers with this gig, which required both reading and improvising. Waller and Basie, by the way, retained a lifelong attachment to the organ.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces Dave Chappelle to Host 2025 Gala Concert “Duke Ellington at 125” – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Jazz at Lincoln Center today announced Dave Chappelle, award-winning American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and producer, will host the organization’s 2025 Gala, Duke Ellington at 125, on April 30, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. in Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, at Broadway 60th Street in New York City.
Youth Movement on Display at Jazz at Lincoln Center – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Prior to Friday’s concert, I must confess, the phrase “Contemporary Jazz Masterpieces” kind of put me off. Of those three words, the only one that sparks any anticipation of something fun is the one in the middle; the title as a whole led me to expect something heavy and serious.
Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis has never been interested in remaining silent – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, is rarely not in motion. Luckily, The Dam Yankee podcast, in partnership with NL Times, caught the living jazz legend after his sold-out performances with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Theatre visionary Bunny Christie, pop legend Lulu and pioneering jazz musician Wynton Marsalis to receive honorary doctorates – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
A Scottish music icon, a groundbreaking jazz musician and a Tony Award winner will be honoured with honorary doctorates from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland this summer.
Jazz at Lincoln Center presents Contemporary Jazz Masterpieces, featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Jazz at Lincoln Center presents Contemporary Jazz Masterpieces featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, with co-music direction by Wynton Marsalis and Steven Feifke. This concert event takes place on April 25-26 at 7:30 p.m. ET in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater.
Blue Engine Records to release Essentially Ellington: The JLCO Recordings, 1999-2025 – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Blue Engine Records, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s in-house record label, announced plans to release Essentially Ellington: The JLCO Recordings, 1999-2025 on April 30, 2025, in celebration of International Jazz Day and to mark the 30th anniversary of the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival (EE), Jazz at Lincoln Center’s signature education program.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra puts notoriously difficult Wynton Marsalis piece on record – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Music Director Jader Bignamini didn’t take an easy route in making the first commercial recording of his career. The piece in question is the DSO’s performance of Wynton Marsalis’ “Blues Symphony,” a notoriously challenging 2009 composition that’s both long (seven movements in just over an hour) and intricate in its blend of blues, classical and New Orleans jazz motifs.
Wynton Marsalis and J@LCO dazzle with Democracy! Suite at Barbican – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Every so often, a concert comes along that lifts the spirits of everyone present, and the final evening of Wynton Marsalis’s March residency at the Barbican was one such. The main event was the UK premiere of his ‘Democracy! Suite’
Jazz at Lincoln Center review — Wynton Marsalis’s gripping Fourth Symphony – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Incredible trumpeter, bandleader and inspirational force though he is, Wynton Marsalis sometimes seems to struggle when he attempts long-form composition. The results often sound like a patchwork of disparate ideas rather than a symphonic unity.
‘I was shaped by growing up in segregation’: Wynton Marsalis on how jazz connects democracy and liberation – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Wynton Marsalis made history when he became the first musician to win classical and jazz Grammy Awards in the same year. He tells the BBC’s Katty Kay about jazz’s unique connection to liberation and how his father’s relationship with music shaped his approach.
Wynton Marsalis brings a baggy monster to the Barbican, plus the best of March’s classical concerts – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
If there’s such a thing as royalty in jazz, the Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra is surely it. On Saturday night they strolled onto the Barbican stage with an easy assurance that seemed to say, “We own this music”.
Wynton Marsalis leads rich residency with echoes of Ellington – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s latest three-day Barbican residency was suffused with Ellingtonian touches. The opening night combined the JLCO Youth Orchestra with the Guildhall’s Ellington-flavoured band, and the young musicians’ frightening maturity was in evidence in the Charlie Parker Combo that played the free stage the following evening.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Marsalis, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - sounds above substance – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Few symphonies lasting over an hour hold the attention (Mahler’s can; even Messiaen’s Turangalîla feels two movements too long). Wynton Marsalis is a great man, but his Fourth, “The Jungle”, is no masterpiece, not even a symphony
Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis celebrates a major milestone, explains why he doesn’t get sentimental over historic career – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Rooms have been buzzing with the sound of jazz legend Wynton Marsalis’ smooth trumpet playing for over half a century now. The world-renowned musician — a nine-time Grammy Award winner and Pulitzer Prize holder — was given his first trumpet at age 6.
Wynton Marsalis on jazz band’s Hong Kong concerts and having ‘a good time wherever I go’ – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Grammy-winning composer and modern jazz pioneer Wynton Marsalis will celebrate his birthday on stage with a Hong Kong audience this week. “I have a good time wherever I go. It’s going to be significant to me because it’s my birthday, but only to me. It’s not significant to you, necessarily,” quips the US trumpeter, who will turn 63 on October 18.
Shanghai’s pulse comes alive in concert led by American jazz icon – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
American jazz trumpet master Wynton Marsalis recently performed two concerts in Beijing with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, a renowned big band ensemble. One of the concerts featured an innovative piece titled Shanghai Suite.
Wynton Marsalis’ The Shanghai Suite At Hong Kong Academy For Performing Arts – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
How does Wynton Marsalis spend his birthday? On the road, of course. The venerable champion of all things jazzy and traditional celebrated his 63rd birthday onstage in Hong Kong on October 18, the second in a duo of divergent dates leading his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO), which taken consecutively felt like two sides of the same coin.
Marsalis pitches balance of jazz into political arena – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Renowned American trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis believes the universal language of jazz can bridge divides with a common story of humanity. Marsalis has charted a decades-long career that has seen him win nine Grammys and tour the world with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
Wynton Marsalis and Company Showcase New Arrangements of Pivotal Pre-Jazz Pieces – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Whereas others revisiting this early music try to incorporate some of the funk and grit of early jazz and protojazz, Marsalis and friends keep everything very smooth and highly swinging.
Jazz hits high notes in symphony collaboration – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Led by legendary jazz trumpet player and composer Wynton Marsalis of the United States, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra collaborated with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra to present Marsalis’ fourth jazz symphony The Jungle in Shanghai on Oct 26.
LOUIS: A Silent Film with Live Music by Wynton Marsalis and Cecile Licad - West Coast Tour May 2025 – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
LOUIS is a silent film, written and directed by Dan Pritzker and shot by Oscar®-winning cinematographer, the late Vilmos Zsigmond. Pre-eminent jazz musician, Wynton Marsalis and 19th century American composer, Louis Moreau Gottschalk provide the score.
Wynton Marsalis: Concert for Orchestra - World Premiere by WRD Symphony Orchestra in Cologne – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Wynton Marsalis has always moved confidently between the musical worlds of jazz and classical music – as a trumpeter and as a composer. This is also evident in his Concerto for Orchestra, which he composed on commission from the WDR Symphony Orchestra.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis review - The great big band at Symphony Center, Chicago – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
On Friday evening, January 24, 2025, in the first of 2 concerts performed at Orchestra Hall, 220 S. Michigan, Chicago, as part of the 94th season of the Symphony Center Presents Jazz Series, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with artistic director and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, presented Bebop Revolution
Chautauqua at 150: Wynton Marsalis’ All Rise – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Chautauqua at 150: Wynton Marsalis’ All Rise is a one-hour PBS documentary that celebrates the sesquicentennial of this iconic institution while exploring the ever-evolving definition of democracy through powerful stories and performances that have unfolded there. Featuring appearances by Wynton Marsalis
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s National Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival Celebrates 30th Anniversary – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Today, Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the top high school jazz bands selected to compete in the 30th annual Essentially Ellington_ High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival** on May 7-11, 2025, at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Jazz at Lincoln Center is located at Broadway at 60th St., New York, NY.
The JLCO with Wynton Marsalis and Guests salute the Blues, Gospel, Country, Bluegrass, and the Early Sounds of Swing in JAZZ AMERICANA – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
On February 7 and 8, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, joined by special guests—vocalist Shenel Johns, violinist and fiddler Maggie O’Connor, fiddler Mark O’Connor, banjo player and guitarist Gavin Rice, and pianist Terry Waldo—will explore the roots of jazz in Jazz Americana at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater. Jazz at Lincoln Center is located on Broadway at 60th Street in New York, NY.
Wynton Marsalis, With Inspiration From Gerry Mulligan, Sets Jazz at Lincoln Center on a New Course – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
In recent seasons, much of the programming at Jazz at Lincoln Center has been devoted to examining the international status of jazz. This year, though, it’s been all about exploring generations, genres, and subgenres of jazz.
Pulitzer-winning jazz artist Wynton Marsalis on how Massachusetts shaped his career – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
As a young adult trying to hone his skill as a jazz trumpeter, Wynton Marsalis was no stranger to Massachusetts. He was a fellow at Tanglewood, and performed at Boston’s Symphony Hall.
Bebop Revolution Concert Event Features World Premiere of Everything Changes, Commissioned Work from Composer and Trombonist Vincent Gardner – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC), continues its 20th anniversary celebration of Frederick P. Rose Hall, known as the House of Swing with Bebop Revolution featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) with Wynton Marsalis.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Explores Works by Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Lennie Tristano, Benny Golson and More in Cool School & Hard Bop – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis debuts Cool School & Hard Bop under the music direction of JLCO saxophonist Sherman Irby and JLCO frequent collaborator, pianist, composer and arranger Joe Block.