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On Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio, the currently featured show is Congo Square.
You can listen to the complete show (Real Player required) or listen to some interesting interview about the composition.
In the first interview, Amina Addy describes the difficulty of the collaboration.
Then Wynton talks about the technical challenges associated with the piece, and describes the structure of the piece.
Last, Carlos Henriquez helps jazz musicians understand the African bell pattern

You can follow the show using the text script and watch to a Congo Square photo gallery by Frank Stewart.

On AmericanRoutes, you can listen to an interview and the live performance of Congo Square with Wynton. (Real Player required)

The New York Times has just posted a review about Wynton’s Congo Square performed on Thursday night at the Rose Theater. (free registration needed).

As you know, Wynton, who has been recovering from a lip injury, didn’t touch the trumpet during his new commission (because he conceived his role as conductor only, according to Jazz at Lincoln Center).
As a result of the injury, Jazz at Lincoln Center has postponed a concert featuring the Wynton Marsalis Quartet and the Orion String Quartet scheduled for Thursday through next Saturday.
The concert will instead take place on Sept. 20, in Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall.

Mary Fiance Fuss, a spokeswoman for Jazz at Lincoln Center, said Wynton’s next public performance would be at the organization’s annual spring benefit, on June 5 at the Apollo Theater. But she said he had pulled out of a tour in June with the New Orleans musicians Dr. John and the Neville Brothers, which includes stops in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Illinois and Indiana.

NY1.com has just published a new article and a video interview to Wynton, about his latest work: Congo Square. (Real Player required)
Congo Square will be performed tonight and tomorrow at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

The Washington Post has just published an article about Congo Square.
The last work from Wynton and Acub Addy will be performed May 4, 5 and 6 at Rose Theater

Wynton’ s recent Congo Square performance has got a new article/review on Playbill Arts.com

A nice article about behind the scenes, and Wynton directing Congo Square in New Orleans is now on line on The Times Picayune.

Thanks to our friend Debra, we received new and exciting photos about Wynton at Congo Square parade in New Orleans. Enjoy the images in our gallery !
More images on flickr