Please join Wynton at 9PM EST on Tuesday, April 7th for a live Q&A session. Wynton will answer questions about his latest release, He and She, as well as questions about any of his past recordings.
A new status message will appear at 9PM. Post your questions under that message on his Facebook page from 9 to 9:30.
Wynton will hold a “musical Q&A” with Yale History of Art Professor Robert Farris Thompson on February 5 at 4:30 p.m. at Yale University, in the United Church on the Green (Corner of Temple & Elm Streets New Haven, CT).
The event is free and open to the public. Wynton is visiting Yale University as a Chubb Fellow.
Wynton is now in Washington, DC, to play for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Following you can find a quote from Wynton’s commentary about the role of jazz music, democracy and the presidential inauguration, published yesterday on CNN. You can also give a look to the interview he gave for the Huffington Post.
On the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday, let’s recognize the pernicious effects of separating people by generic categories. In the fields of science and technology, we accept that one generation builds on another. But in the popular worlds of culture, there’s a generation war in which “young” is considered energetic and good and “old” equals passé and tired. So inaccurate. Culture provides a stream of forever-fresh ideas. The generations need one another…….
……President Obama’s inauguration is not a beginning, but the continuation of a glorious history that is hallmarked by the American people’s desire to be one. Our Constitution demands it. And it forces us to a life much greater than the Founding Fathers could have possibly imagined. In the words of Duke Ellington, supreme master of the blues, “The people are my people.” Hallelujah.
BBC World News America is asking personalities from various walks of life to tell president-elect Barack Obama what they think he should do when he takes up his new job on 20 January.
Tuesday, January 13, 7pm and 10pm ET (check your cable listings for channel), Wynton is interviewed on “Notes to President Obama” on BBC WORLD NEWS. Check the video
Last August, pianist Ethan Iverson sat down with Wynton and started working on the following collection of posts. Contents include:
On September 5, 2008, The Musicians@Google program welcomed Wynton and Geoffrey Ward to Google’s New York office to discuss their new book “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life,”.
The event was moderated by with Google’s own Jim Lecinski. Here you have a video clip of the interview (43 minutes) where Wynton speaks about jazz, taps to explain the rhythm and plays the trumpet to explain the blues. Enjoy it…
Wynton is giving interviews to the main radio and TV, these days, for the presentation of his new book “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life”. You can listen to his interview online for Talk of the Nation and for The Leonard Lopate Show (also downloadable in MP3).
Following, you can enjoy some photos from the book discussion and signing at Barnes & Noble, on September 2, 2008.
The book is available online from Music Today
Wynton is actually traveling Canada, with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. While in his car, he was interviewed by phone by the Vancouver’s site Straight.com.
There are three or four sources of basic creativity for everyone. One is the sound of our own particular era, that we all share because we grew up in a certain time. Another is the things that came before us, in all categories of art.
Read the complete interview on Straight.com web site.
About his concert in Vancouver, tonight, the Vancouver Sun publishes an article and the transcript of an interview to Wynton.
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