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Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will embark on the “Portrait in Seven Shades” U.S. Tour in March 2010. The band will perform selections from the suite as well as a repertoire to include tunes by Count Basie, Mary Lou Williams and others. Jazz at Lincoln Center announces the CD release of [...]  

Jazz websites rattle with fierce debate after Wynton Marsalis offers present to fan who complained at Larry Ochs gigWell, that didn't take long. If the Guardian's crowdsourcers can spend hours trawling through Tony Blair's complex accounts for the reward of a Steve Bell cartoon, then the offer of a deluge of Wynton Marsalis recordings mentioned in Shortcuts this morning was bound to have an instant impact.The jazz legend wanted to send a large...  

It is easy to be cynical about holiday music. On the mainstream popular music front, these releases are often nakedly commercial, marketed with a fixed (and very large) target population in mind. And a good many of such recordings are truly bad. In the run up to Christmas 2009, the marketplace is clotted with a legion of the musical equivalent of cholesteric plaque, restricting the ability of the best recordings to reveal themselves...  

ATLANTA,  (Reuters Life!) – Acclaimed trumpeter Wynton  Marsalis, arguably the world’s most prominent jazz musician, is  set to premiere a major new project — composing ...  

Wynton Marsalis loves the sound of New York City. For the 48-year-old jazzman, there’s a thrilling harmony in the jangle of the streets. “If you listen beneath the surface of noise—the construction, the sound of the traffic, beneath the rumble of the subway—you can get down to the different interactions between people,” he says. If anyone [...]  

Wynton Marsalis Legion of Honor Medal Presentation at French Embassy NYC brought to you by Jon Hammond *WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: photo by Jon Hammond  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSMA9rEOF… French Ambassador Pierre Vimont presents Wynton Marsalis the insignia of chevalier of the Legion of Honor medal, France’s highest distinction, in a very special ceremony at the French Embassy in New York by [...]  

In response to a report that the thrice-postponed premiere of the piece was due to Wynton Marsalis's creative block, the composer's primary copyist writes, "I have the full score of the Blues Symphony complete with all seven movements. The piece is not being played in it's [sic] entirety because of a lack of rehearsal time, not because the piece has not been finished."...  

French Ambassador Pierre Vimont presents Wynton Marsalis the insignia of chevalier of the Legion of Honor medal, France's highest distinction, in a very special ceremony at the French Embassy in New York by French Cultural Services....This item belongs to: MovingImage/ourmedia.This item has files of the following types: 512Kb MPEG4, Animated GIF, MPEG4, Metadata, Ogg Video, Thumbnail  

Marsalis: Racism and greed put blues at the back of the bus. Does talk about racism, but puts it specifically in the context of slavery in a way that doesn't often get heard in the mainstream. "CNN: Why was blues not regarded as something of value in this country? MARSALIS: It came from who we didn't like. That's what it was -- it wasn't that we couldn't see it. Who it came from, we did not  

All About Jazz is celebrating Wynton Kelly's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Wynton KellyWynton Kelly (born December 2, 1931 in Jamaica--died April 12, 1971 in Toronto, Canada) was an American jazz pianist. His family moved to Brooklyn, New York City when Kelly was four, and he started his professional career as a teenager... more...  

*Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, is composing an original symphony for orchestra that seeks to reflect American history from Revolution to the present.  

Readers of this blog can win 2 tix for JALC's November 14 shows by Maceo Parker or the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra playing Mary Lou Williams, or autographed Wynton-Willie Nelson Play Ray Charles dvds. But in keeping with the inherent...  

BERLIN (AP) — Sir Simon Rattle's new contract with the Berlin Philharmonic is just days old but already he's looking ahead — to the orchestra's coast-to-coast tour U.S. tour starting this week, and to the role that classical music can and will  

Branford Marsalis performs at Newport Jazz. November 19, 2009 from WBGO - Claudia Acuna was born in Chile in 1971. She grew up loving the radio, and ever since junior high, she's been singing, singing, singing. In the 1990s, she came to New York to ...  

Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has been mystifying music lovers with his jazzy classical trumpet playing for decades.