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Congo Square tour started on June 14 from Rochester. Here is a review of the concert by Democrat and Chronicle. Wynton was also interviewed by the Philadelphia Tribune for the concert in Philadelphia (review by the Philadelphia Inquirer), by the Pocono Record for the event at the Mountain Laurel Center in Bushkill, and by WCPN Ideastream (mp3 audio) for the upcoming concert in Cleveland (June 18). In the interview fro WCPN, Ideastream music director Bobby Jackson caught up Yacub Addy’s wife and manager, Amina as well as Wynton, who talked about Congo Square and the African connections.
Please check the complete tour schedule for more info about the Congo Square tour. Feel free to send us you review and photos with Wynton. They will be published on our site.

From today, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton and Odadaa! with Yacub Addy will tour the critically-acclaimed work, Congo Square, written by Wynton and Mr. Addy, to 11 U.S. cities. The 24 musicians will perform the celebrated musical experience that had its premiere in New Orleans last spring. A CD of Congo Square is available on tour only right now, and will be released in the fall.
Today the band is performing in Rochester; tomorrow June 15, they will be in Philadelphia (read article by Philly.com and an interview by the Citypaper); on June 16 they will perform in Bushkill (article by the Morning Call Online; on June 18 in Cleveland (read articles by the Akron Beacon Journal and the Cleveland Scene).
Feel free to send us reviews and photos with Wynton if you attend one of the concerts. They will be published on this site and on Wynton’s Flickr gallery.

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On April 26, Wynton participated in a Q&A session at Tribeca Film Festival, with the filmmakers of Chops, a documentary film directed by Bruce Broder that follows a Florida high school jazz band’s journey to Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival.
Here you can find a video interview to Wynton about “Chops” on NY1.com or watch the trailer.

On April 26, 27 at Rose Theater, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis debuted exciting and long-overdue big band arrangements of music recorded for Blue Note Records in the 1950s and ’60s.
Here is a review of the first concert evening on the New York Times (free subscription required).
Tonight, April 28, there will be the last performance at JALC.

Yesterday, Wynton was in Pittsburgh and had a question-and-answer session with students of Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University. Here is an article about the event on Post-Gazette and on Pittsurgh Live

On Friday 13, Wynton was in Sprinbook and gave a masterclass for students and band members of Springbrook and Briggs Chaney and White Oak middle schools.
Here is an article about it on Gazette.net

Tuesday, March 11, Wynton played at Rose Theater (JALC) with his quintet and Dr John.
During the evening there was the premier performance of: “Music, Deep Rivers in My Soul,” an hour-long suite for quintet and special guests based on a poem by Maya Angelou.
You can read a review of the concert by the New York Sun.

The New York Sun has also published an article about Wynton’s latest album: From the Plantation to the Penitentiary