Wynton Marsalis official web site

Here…Now is the first web-only album released by Wynton Marsalis.
Starting from today you can freely download the third track: Strength
The complete album and the mp3 tracks (192 kb/s) are freely downloadable from this site or from our iTunes Music Store Podcast.

Album title: Here..Now
Recorded at: Sear Sound, NYC - 2001
Engineer: Patrick Smith
Producer: Delfeayo Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis - trumpet
Wessel Anderson - alto sax
Victor Goines - tenor, soprano sax
Ronald Westray, Vincent Gardner - trombone
Richard Johnson - piano
Gerald Cannon, Kengo Nakamura - bass
Ali Jackson - drums

Track Listing (right-click the link to save the file on your hard disk)

1 - Chorale (1:02 min)
2 - Speed (4:51 min)
3 - Strength (6:34 min)
4 - Style (1:00 min)
5 - Glamour (2:23 min)
6 - Pain (4:16 min)
7 - Heaven (3:54 min)

The four track entitled: Style, will be downloadable starting from March 1, 2007

Did you download the first two tracks from Wynton Marsalis’ web only album entitled: Here…Now, ? People and fans appreciated them very much.

On February 1, 2007, we are going to publish the third track, entitled:
Strength (6:34 min).
It will be freely downloadable only from our web site or from our iTunes Store podcast. Please stay tuned…

Here…Now is the first web-only album released by Wynton Marsalis.
The complete album and the mp3 tracks (192 kb/s) will be freely downloadable from this site or from our iTunes Music Store Podcast.
Starting from today you’ll be able to download the first two tracks.
We’ll release a new track on the first day of every month

Album title: Here..Now
Recorded at: Sear Sound, NYC - 2001
Engineer: Patrick Smith
Producer: Delfeayo Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis - trumpet
Wessel Anderson - alto sax
Victor Goines - tenor, soprano sax
Ronald Westray, Vincent Gardner - trombone
Richard Johnson - piano
Gerald Cannon, Kengo Nakamura - bass
Ali Jackson - drums

Track Listing (right-click the link to save the file on your hard disk)

1 - Chorale (1:02 min)
2 - Speed (4:51 min)
3 - Strength (6:34 min)
4 - Style (1:00 min)
5 - Glamour (2:23 min)
6 - Pain (4:16 min)
7 - Heaven (3:54 min)

Wynton is giving a gift to the fans for the Christmas Holiday.
On January 1, 2007, he is going to release a new album entitled: Here…Now
The complete album and all the songs never have been released on CD before.
They will be available for free exclusively on this web site and on our iTunes Music Store podcast.

More news to come in the next days. Stay tuned…

Wynton is recording in studio during these days. This is a text of an interview that he gave to Associated Press about his new CD:

On Wynton Marsalis’ upcoming CD, he criticizes political leadership in America, cultural corruption, and sex and violence in rap, and that’s just on one song.

“I don’t speak from outside, I’m not finger-pointing. I’m a part of it, I’m speaking from inside of our culture,” Marsalis said. “We’re not taking a moralistic view. It’s not, ‘Let me tell y’all how I’m different from you.’ It’s a comment on our way of life and our culture.”

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The Metropolitan Opera has commissioned a new opera from Wynton and award-winning playwright John Guare. The project was revealed during an interview Met general manager Peter Gelb gave to Playbill.com yesterday.

The venture is in its earliest stages, so no subject or working title has yet been chosen and no anticipated completion date has yet been set, according to a Met spokesperson.
Guare, winner of the Tony, Obie, Drama Desk, Olivier and many other awards and honors, is the author of, among other plays, Six Degrees of Separation, House of Blue Leaves, Bosoms and Neglect, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun, Marco Polo Sings a Solo and Lydie Breeze. While he wrote the libretto for the 1972 musical version of Two Gentlemen of Verona, this will be his first opera text.

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Marsalis on Music: The Book & CD Companion to the Public Television Series (from 1995), has just been reviewed on the AllAboutJazz.com