Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has been a longtime jazz master and advocate for jazz as America's classical music. Akron audiences will have the opportunity to see him perform with the Jazz at Lincoln ...
At the New York Philharmonic, concertos by Samuel Barber and Wynton Marsalis offered contrasting musical ideas: lyrical cohesion and vibrant pluralism.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is releasing a new album of music composed by jazz and classical music legend Wynton Marsalis. Marsalis wrote Blues Symphony in 2009, and it’s now the Detroit Symphony ...
SAN DIEGO – Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire and proto-rap group the Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
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The solo trumpet part in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #2 remains one of the most challenging in the repertoire, and Wynton Marsalis navigates it with fluidity and grace. Hear that and more this morning ...
Arguments these days about what constitutes jazz feel almost quaint. Contemporary performers — many of them Houstonians such as Robert Glasper, James Francies and Chris Dave — have approached creative ...
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 ...
North Texas has just enjoyed two of the best concert weeks ever, with tour stops by Elton John (in his last North Texas appearance), Flaming Lips, Wu-Tang and Nas, Smashing Pumpkins and Gorillaz, ...
Most seasons, you can acutely feel every inch of Ravinia’s 12 miles from Chicago’s northernmost border. For a festival that’s the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, its programming tends ...
Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, and proto-rap group The Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer ...