Wynton Marsalis

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis return to Hill Auditorium on Wednesday. Last winter, when the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra was booked to play in Ann Arbor, a blizzard prevented them from traveling to town. The...  

Gates Jr. as he introduced Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis on Thursday night at Sanders Theatre. The program, “Meet Me at the Crossroad,” was part of a two-year lecture series given by Marsalis entitled “Hidden in ...  

Wynton Marsalis: Telling a love story Wynton Marsalis recently gave the third of six epic lectures that he is slated to give at Harvard University. He promised that this one wasn’t going to be 4 and half hours long, as the last one was. When he got started, the result was part history lesson, part concert, part spoken-word poetry reading. Three hours into the show, his agenda became clear: He was telling a timeless story about love. For...  

Like every great blues man, Marsalis was lamenting the loss of something he loves. Jazz and the blues are falling by the wayside. Young people don’t understand how crucial this music is to who we are as Americans or how integral it is to our ...  

Wynton Marsalis continues his two-year lecture series at Harvard with an exploration of root styles of American music in Sanders Theatre on Feb. 6. Currently the artistic director of jazz at Lincoln Center, Marsalis is an accomplished musician, composer, bandleader, and educator who has made the promotion of jazz and cultural literacy his hallmark cause. Marsalis’ third lecture, “Meet Me at the Crossroad,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. and include...  

New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center will celebrate The Paul Simon Songbook over three nights this April. The performances will feature Paul Simon and Jazz Lincoln Center mastermind Wynton Marsalis as well as special guest Aaron Neville on select ...  

From “Hellbound Highball” to “Happy Feet Blues,” this collection of works is the greatest retrospective of Wynton as a composer. For the first time, Wynton Marsalis brings you this self-curated 2-CD set featuring ONLY his compositions. Performed by a diverse group of artists including musicians from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Orion String Quartet, Mark O’Connor, members of the Jazz at...  

Jr. The trumpet player and composer has a long association with CBS and was friends with the network's late newsman Ed Bradley. Marsalis said he was looking forward to sharing with viewers "the incredible variety and richness of our national ...  

Adored jazz great and hometown hero, Wynton Marsalis, is a musician, a composer and an educator - and now he's adding another title to his resume: Cultural Correspondent for CBS. Marsalis will provide viewers with his insight on a vast range of cultural ...  

Man, you must be crazy." After having an argument about race with a young white college student, Marsalis began to read King's writings, as well as books written about the civil rights leader. "The legacy of Dr. King is all around us."  

It's going to be culture and all that jazz for CBS Television The network has named jazz trumpeter and multiple Grammy winner Wynton Marsalis as its new "cultural correspondent," appearing on "CBS Sunday Morning" and "CBS This Morning." His ...  

Wynton Marsalis continues his two-year lecture series at Harvard with an exploration of root styles of American music in Sanders Theatre on Feb. 6. Currently the artistic director of jazz at Lincoln Center, Marsalis is an accomplished musician ...  

The network said Thursday that Marsalis will report on a range of cultural and educational developments on "CBS This Morning" and "CBS Sunday Morning." His first appearance is scheduled for Jan. 16, as the nation observes the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr.  

Wynton Marsalis's Swing Symphony (Symphony No 3), 25 and 26 July. No more tantalising combination is possible this year: Marsalis performs at the Barbican Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.  

Pianist Joey Calderazzo entered the general consciousness in the late '80s as a sideman for Michael Brecker. Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, like his outspoken brother Wynton, was genetically engineered to become a monster of jazz. Together, they have played fusion funk in Buckshot LeFonque and se...