On October 4, 2007, the Young Scholars Charter School (YSCS) will host a benefit concert featuring Wynton Marsalis.
The concert will be held at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (260 South Broad Street Avenue of the Arts, Philadelphia PA) and all proceeds will benefit the school.
On October 6, Wynton will be with his great friend and former pianist Marcus Robert, the J Master, and his trio, for a recording session. Wynton is to perform on 3 numbers. No major record label set to release. (more info to come…)
Marcus Roberts trio members include Roland Guerin (bass) and Jason Marsalis (drums).
On October 7, at 6 pm, they will perform in concert at the “Jacoby Symphony Hall” at the Times Union Center for the Performing Arts in Jacksonville, FL.
This concert is a benefit for a non-profit organization called “Body and Soul“. After the concert there will be two receptions too.
On October 8, at 9 am, Wynton and Marcus will give masterclass at Jacoby Hall for local high school students and then they will be in Tallahasee for another masterclass for the Florida State University students.
At 8 pm (two 45 minutes sets) they are going to play in concert at Ruby Diamond Auditorium (Tallahassee, FL).
Tickets for the concert can be purchased at www.tickets.fsu.edu
On August 21 and 22, 2007, Wynton will play with his Quintet in Northampton at the Iron Horse Music Hall.
The Quintet line-up will be: Wynton Marsalis (Trumpet), Dan Nimmer (Piano), Carlos Henriquez (Bass), Walter Blanding Jr. (Sax), Ali Jackson (Drums). They will play four shows. At 7.00 pm and 9.30 pm for the two nights.
Yesterday night, the Wynton Marsalis Septet, played in Marciac for the 30th Anniversary concert. Wynton paid a tribute to Marciac introducing the concert with these words: “No France…no New Orleans, no Jazz”.
Then the band played tracks from Wynton’s album entitled The Marciac Suite: Loose Duck, Jean-Louis is Everywhere, Guy Lafitte, Marciac Fun, Marciac Moon, Mademoiselle de Gascony, Armagnac dreams, B is for Boussaget, For my Kids at College of Marciac, Sunflowers.
As encore they played: Ain’ No, What have I done (from the album: Unforgivable Blackness), and Just friends. Following you can enjoy some pictures from the soundcheck, yesterday afternoon at 4pm.
Wynton is in Europe now for his Summer Tour 2007 with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO). Tonight we will play in Vilnius (Lithuania) and tomorrow he will play in Warsaw (Poland) for the JVC Jazz Festival.
Then they will play in Germany, Belgium, Turkey, Netherlands, Spain, UK and France. The new dates in Spain (Valencia, Madrid, Peñíscola and San Feliu de Guixol) have been confirmed in the latest hours. Please, check the complete tour schedule for more info about venues.
Please send us comments, reviews and photos with Wynton if you attend one of the concerts. They will be published here and on Wynton’s Flickr gallery.
Tonight Wynton is in Aspen with the JLCO and Odadda! to play Congo Square. Here you have an article about the concert on Aspen Times. Last week’s Congo Square concert in Detroit has been reviewed by Detroit News Online.
Chicago concert for the Ravinia Festival has three reviews: by the Prairie Owl, the Chicago Tribune and by Concert Live Wire (this one has nice photos too).
If you attended one of the past Congo Square concert, feel free to send us your opinion and photos with Wynton.
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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