Photo and review about Wynton playing at Barbican
Wynton was at the Barbican (London) yesterday night, with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The concert was reviewed by the Evening Standard, by The Independent, the Times Online, the Guardian Unlimited and the Telegraph.
Some fans shot also beautiful photos and posted them on Flickr:
Photo-set from The Barbican concert; Jam session with Wynton and some members of the LJCO at Uncle Sam’s Jazz club in Hackney on July 22, 2007.
Please feel free to send us your comments, photos with Wynton and reviews if you attended one of the UK or NL concerts.
Graham said
on July 28, 2007 @ 2:09 pm
What a night, July 25th 2007, Colston Hall, Bristol.
Being a trumpet player and seeing Wynton for the first time was amazing! Fantastic show, what a line up!
What made the night was listening to the majority of the band jam with Andy Hague’s lot (a friend of mine) after the gig, and getting to meet some of the worlds best players who were generally cool to chill with.
Big thanks to all who were there, it really was awesome, come back soon….please!!
Karen said
on July 28, 2007 @ 9:39 pm
Finally old Sholto from the Independent showed some respect to “Maestro Marsalis”, but not without opening with his typical cut-throat rhetoric. Someone ought to correct him on his use of the acronym for the JLCO, we’ve switched over here on the shores of New York, home of 60 Columbus Circle.
Jason P. said
on July 31, 2007 @ 12:52 am
karen read a comment on Barbican concert on:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/
Karen said
on July 31, 2007 @ 9:48 am
In terms of defining the styles of Jazz, this is basic philosophy of music. We establish the elements, ascertain their qualities, and evaluate their presence in a piece of music. This is aesthetics. With that process established, we are then able to identify and catagorize works of art into stylistic genres. It is simple. How much time is spent disputing the qualities of Impressionism, Cubism, and Minimalism? They are clearly different.
This is when performance as a medium becomes so ephemeral. When a dance ceases to be performed, it becomes extinct, as does music. At this stage in technology, we have recordings and such, but I find them substitutes for the live experience, and rarely do recordings capture the intensity factor, or the love of the music, essential to the dynamics of a live event.
As a performance hall, I hardly would classify the Rose Theater as a museum, nor the rest of the Jazz at Lincoln Center facility. All too often, these critics, and the subsequent voices spouting their viewpoints, have not witnessed enough live phenomena of the trumpeting Marsalis, with his many line-ups, on the stage.
Sean Corby said
on July 31, 2007 @ 11:10 am
I wrote a letter to the Independent ‘congratulating’ Mr Sholto Byrnes on finally being blessed with the ability to hear Wynton and the band as they are meant to be heard.
Funny,because nothing’s changed.At the Barbican they sounded like they have done whenever i’ve heard them- soulful, swinging, precise and honest.
careba said
on August 22, 2007 @ 4:34 pm
ENJOY!
C.