Wynton Marsalis

...Tuesday. Lincoln Center is looking for five cities where it might do a residency program and present concerts by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, jazz conductor at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Newberry said. Ellis will tour the Lyric Theatre,...

In this article: Jim Newberry, Lincoln Center, University of Kentucky, Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington

Cast: Wynton Marsalis, Owen Broder, T.J. Norris, Darren Escar, Jamison Ross, Jeron "Ricio" Fruge US DVD release date: 6 October 2009 (Virgil Films & Entertainment) Director Bruce Broder had never heard of the Essentially Ellington High...

In this article: Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival, Roosevelt High School, Garfield High School, Duke Ellington, and New York City

...Sinatra, to whom the event was a salute. Diahann Carroll, who sang in a stunning black-and-white Bob Mackie dress with Wynton Marsalis' orchestra, cleared up a famous mystery dating back to the 1960s. Why were her feet bare in a Sinatra TV...

In this article: Frank Sinatra, Diahann Carroll, Bob Mackie, Dina Merrill, Ted Hartley, and Count Basie

Wynton Marsalis performing at the 30th Montreal International Jazz Festival in Montreal, Quebec Wynton Marsalis is already the most renowned jazz musician of his generation. Now, he's trying out a new musical style: mixing classical with...

In this article: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Montreal, Quebec

Michelle is often compared to Cassandra Wilson, Nina Simone and Betty Carter in style and tone. She has opened in concert for Wynton Marsalis, Rene Marie, Terrell Stafford, Chris Botti, George Benson and Mark Murphy. Her arrangements of...

In this article: Michelle Walker, Russia, Mark Murphy, Nina Simone, Betty Carter, George Benson, Chris Botti, and Cassandra Wilson

...to one another are explained in a way almost anyone can comprehend, and the contributions of contemporaries as disparate as Wynton Marsalis and Vijay Iyer are presented in their proper contexts. Massachusetts finally gets its props as the...

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...to date. There will be appearances by the Chinese piano wizard Lang Lang, celebrated Malian ngoni player Bassekou Kouyate, Wynton Marsalis' Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and Cherryholmes, a grammy-nominated family band, whose music...

In this article: Savannah, Chris Thile, Georgia, Punch Brothers, Franz Schubert, Atlanta, and John Berendt

...has played hybrids by composers as diverse as Roberto Sierra, David Schiff, Michael Daugherty, Anthony Davis, Wayne Shorter and Wynton Marsalis. More are on the way, including two world premieres: a Klezmer-inspired Clarinet Concerto by...

In this article: Michel Camilo, Leonard Slatkin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, George Gershwin, Le Corsaire, Roberto Sierra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi, and Free Press

...up trust and tolerance and team building." Looking ahead, the Berlin Philharmonic's next project is a collaboration with Wynton Marsalis to be played in June. The orchestra also has commissioned a piece for a South African tour in a...

In this article: Simon Rattle, Berlin Philharmonic, U.S., HBO, Luzern, Liverpool, England, Berlin, San Francisco, and Switzerland

...symbolic of the special relationship that jazz musicians have enjoyed with the French people. " Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis Awarded Legion of Honor Wynton Marsalis, one of the most acclaimed jazz musicians of his generation, received the...

In this article: Legion of Honor, New York, Pierre Vimont, and NBC