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“With Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life, I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life–from individual creativity and personal relationships to conducting business and understanding what it means to be American in the most modern sense.”

- Wynton

Published by Random House and released in September 2009, Wynton Marsalis collaborated with historian and writer Geoffery C. Ward to explore jazz and how an understanding of it can lead to a deeper, more original ways of living.
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A new songbook with Wynton’s original compositions is now available in France. The book is entitled: “Wynton Marsalis’ Selection” and features eighteen pieces selected by Wynton himself. The pieces are full score: Trumpet, Saxophone and for the most part Piano, Bass, Drums.
The book is available in France from Planet Partitions. Click on read more for the complete songs list.

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The Italian translation of Wynton’s latest book (Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life or “Come il Jazz puo cambiarti la vita”) is now available. The book published by Feltrinelli, became available in the best Italian bookstores Janaury 29. Other translations will be available later this year, including the Spanish edition from Ediciones Paidos Iberica, the publication date is November 09. Also, the German rights were sold to Siedler Verlag and the Brazilian rights sold to Nova Fronteira. We will inform you if and when other translations will be available.

Wynton’s latest book: “Moving To Higher Ground“, was announced as a nominee for the 40th NAACP Image Awards in the category of Outstanding Literary Work-Non-Fiction.
The NAACP Image Awards is the nation’s premier event celebrating the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts (motion picture, television, recording, and literature), as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors. The 40th NAACP Image Awards will be live this year, taking place on Thursday, February 12, 2009 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

On Tuesday, November 25, 2008 Wynton will be at Hue-Man Bookstore and Café in New York City, to discuss and sign his new book: “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life”.
The event is free and open to public and will take place at 6:00pm.
Hue-Man Bookstore and Café. 2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (Btw. 124th and 125th Sts.) New York, NY 10027. Tel: 212-665-7400

Wynton’s new book: Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life, is now available in stores. You can order it online from Amazon. It is also possible to evaluate the book downloading the first chapter for free in PDF format.
Today, at 7:30 PM, Wynton is going to discuss and sign the book with Geoffrey C. Ward (doors open at 7:15 pm) at Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Triangle, 1972 Broadway @ 66th Street. The event is open to the public. If you need more info, please call 212.595.6859.
Discuss about the new book in this special thread on Wynton’s forum.

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Next week, Wynton is going to discuss and sign his new book: Moving to Higher Ground: How can Jazz change your life. On September 2, at 7:30 PM, he will be with Geoffrey C. Ward (doors open at 7:15 pm) at Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Triangle, 1972 Broadway @ 66th Street. The event is open to the public. If you need more info, please call 212.595.6859 or visit Barnesandnoble.com
On September 9, at 8:00 PM, Wynton will be with Budd Mishkin for a book discussion and signing at 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave @ 92nd Street – Kaufmann Concert Hall.
The event will also be recorded to be broadcast as part of “Live from the 92nd Street Y” fed to hundreds of non-profit organizations around the country.
Price: $27.00 all sections. To purchase tickets visit www.92y.org or call Y-Charge at 212.415.5500. The lecture is sponsored by Barnes & Noble.

The book will be in stores on September 2. 2008. You can pre-order it on Amazon. Download the first chapter for free in PDF format.
Discuss about the new book in this special thread on Wynton’s forum.

Wynton’s new book, entitled “Moving to Higher Ground: How can Jazz change your life” will be in stores on September 2, 2008.
Feel free to download the first chapter of the book (PDF - 78 kb) as free sample. You can pre-order the book on Music Today.
Discuss about the new book in this special thread on Wynton’s forum.

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