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Behind the Scenes: Wynton Marsalis & The Democracy! Suite on BBC World Service – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Check out this exclusive BBC interview by Leo Hornak, who went behind the scenes with Wynton and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra as they got ready for the European premiere of The Democracy! Suite last March.
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 38th Season to Unite African, American Traditions – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
The concerts of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2025–’26 season, adhering to a theme of “Mother Africa,” will delve into the creative spirit that unites African and American musical traditions. Running from July 24, 2025, to June 20, 2026
Detroit Symphony Orchestra presents Wynton Marsalis’ ‘Blues Symphony’ – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
“All of my pieces are long,” says trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis. “And you got to imagine that’s what made it much worse when it sounded so bad. It was a lot of it. So, it was like, ‘Damn, this is terrible, and there’s a lot of this to go.’”
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s New Season Highlights Ties to Africa – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 38th season will celebrate jazz, Africa and the African diaspora with programs that pay tribute to genre greats like John Coltrane and Miles Davis, while others will spotlight vocalists, pianists and other trumpeters. It will also include a tour of Africa by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
Why Wynton Marsalis will never be over the transcendent genius of Louis Armstrong – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Wynton Marsalis is on his way to Chandler Center for the Arts with Cecile Licad and an all-star jazz ensemble to perform the score to “Louis,” a silent film telling a mythical tale of a young Louis Armstrong in the cradle of jazz, New Orleans, on Thursday, May 22.
Silent film and live jazz come together in Santa Barbara for a show about music legend Louis Armstrong – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Louis is a modern-day silent film, complete with a sepia tone. It tells the story of a young Louis Armstrong in New Orleans and features a soundtrack performed live by Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz musician Wynton Marsalis.
Review | Lively History Lesson in Houses of Assorted Repute – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
At the post-performance reception for last week’s appearance by Wynton Marsalis and ensemble, providing a thrilling live accompaniment to the modern silent film LOUIS, an embellished and sometimes racy tale of Louis Armstrong’s formative years, the famed trumpeter was addressing the gathering in the Arlington court and paying props to his collaborators.
Jazz At Lincoln Center Announces 2025-26 Season – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) and Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis today proudly announce programming for its 2025-26 season of concerts at the home of JALC, Frederick P. Rose Hall, colloquially known as The House of Swing, which houses Rose Theater, the Appel Room, and Dizzy’s Club.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces Winners of the 30th Annual International Essentially Ellington High School Competition & Festival – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the three top-placing high school jazz bands in the world and more than 40 individual and section awards during the prestigious 30th Annual International Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival final concert and awards ceremony on May 11 at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Wynton Marsalis is coming to town, and bringing ‘Louis’ – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
When it comes to the life and legacy of Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis is a natural expert. A Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader, Marsalis is Jazz at Lincoln Center’s longtime artistic director and president of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation.
Marsalis leads orchestra in live jazz film score – Wynton Marsalis Official Website
Acclaimed jazz artist Wynton Marsalis took the time to talk to The Leader about his upcoming benefit concert for Centrum this month, during which he’ll be leading a 13-piece jazz orchestra in performing the score to the 2010 silent film “Louis,” directed by Dan Pritzker.
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.
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 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.
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 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’
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 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.
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”.
‘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.
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’ 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.
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 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.
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.