Wynton Marsalis official web site

On August 8 and 13, 2008, Wynton will play at Marciac Jazz Festival. This year he will play with his Septet and Quintet.
The first concert will be performed at the Chapiteau by the Septet: Wynton Marsalis, Marcus Roberts (to be confirmed), Reginald Veal, Herlin Riley, Wess Anderson, Wycliffe Gordon and Victor Goines.
The second performance will take place on August 13 and will feature the Quintet: Wynton Marsalis, Dan Nimmer, Carlos Henriquez, Walter Blanding, Ali Jackson, with Richard Galliano. Wynton will also give two Master Classes on August 10 and 15.
We will produce a complete photo and video report of the concerts, rehearsals and master classes. Stay tuned!

Wynton is on the cover of Teaching Music Magazine (April 2008). The magazine features an interview to him and story on JALC education programs. You can give a look to table of contents for this number and download a pdf of the Q&A with him.

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Blue Note Records just created a special page for the upcoming album entitled Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men with the Blues.
For now it is possible to preview two tracks: Brights Light, Big City and Georgia.
As you know the new album will be released on July 8, 2008. More news to come soon….

Here you have a video-clip aired on WCBS about “Abyssinian 200: A Celebration” performance at JALC.
The video also features comments by Wynton and Reverend Calvin Butts.

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Next June, Wynton and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) will tour Canada for some concerts in Ottawa, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Vitoria.
More info about the complete schedule in our Tour section. The tour dates for July 2008 will be published as soon as possible.

Last April 24, 25 & 26, 2008, at Rose Theater, during the “Tap Meets Flamenco” concert, Wynton the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra also performed selections from The Vitoria Suite, which the city of Vitoria (Spain) commissioned Wynton to write. The city of Vitoria-Gasteiz also produced a promotional video and used one song from the Vitoria Suite as background music. Enjoy it…

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On December 18, 2007, PBS taped Wynton at Rose Hall reading William Butler Yeats’ The Wild Old Wicked Man.
PBS web site has just published the video from that reading.
The Poetry Foundation, undertook this project in order to expose a diverse audience to a broad spectrum of poetic voices, build an appreciation and an audience for poetry, and increase the presence of poets and poetry within the two most ubiquitous media in American popular culture–the Web and TV. In addition to presentation on this Web site, the videos will appear on local public television stations at unexpected moments during their broadcast schedules.

On Tuesday, May 06, 2008, Wynton will speak at VHA Leadership Conference 2008 in Philadelphia. The speech title will be:
Innovation and Jazz: A Talk with Music by Wynton Marsalis.
VHA is a national cooperative of leading not-for-profit health care organizations across the nation. VHA serves more than 1,400 hospitals and more than 21,000 non-acute care organizations, assisting these health care organizations with supply chain management and clinical improvement