Video: Clips from Abyssinian 200 performance
Here you have a video-clip aired on WCBS about “Abyssinian 200: A Celebration” performance at JALC.
The video also features comments by Wynton and Reverend Calvin Butts.
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Video: Preview the Vitoria Suite
Last April 24, 25 & 26, 2008, at Rose Theater, during the “Tap Meets Flamenco” concert, Wynton the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra also performed selections from The Vitoria Suite, which the city of Vitoria (Spain) commissioned Wynton to write. The city of Vitoria-Gasteiz also produced a promotional video and used one song from the Vitoria Suite as background music. Enjoy it…
Video: Wynton reading The Wild Old Wicked Man
On December 18, 2007, PBS taped Wynton at Rose Hall reading William Butler Yeats’ The Wild Old Wicked Man.
PBS web site has just published the video from that reading.
The Poetry Foundation, undertook this project in order to expose a diverse audience to a broad spectrum of poetic voices, build an appreciation and an audience for poetry, and increase the presence of poets and poetry within the two most ubiquitous media in American popular culture–the Web and TV. In addition to presentation on this Web site, the videos will appear on local public television stations at unexpected moments during their broadcast schedules.
Video: Two Men with The Blues to be released on DVD
Upcoming album titled: Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men With The Blues, will be also released on DVD. Probably on Fall 2008.
Filmed live at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the DVD will feature the concert and backstage interviews to Wynton and Willie. Let’s give a look to a video-clip to preview the new DVD…
Wynton’s interview for Academy of Achievement
A few days ago, the Academy of Achievement updated the web pages of their interview to Wynton.
That interview is one of the best available around and it’s from 1991. The interesting conversatin is 8 pages long, and features audio and high-res video excerpts. The biography section of that interview also features a wonderful video-clip where Wynton plays Stardust.
Video: Wynton explaining “West End Blues” and the “Big Four”
As you know, on 2001 Wynton served as a senior creative consultant for the documentary “Jazz”, with filmmaker Ken Burns.
The film, divided into a series of 10 episodes, was broadcasted on PBS, and was released on DVD later that year by the same company.
In the following video-clips from the series, Wynton helps us to understand Louis Armstrong’s solo on “West End Blues” and the “Big Four” in New Orleans Jazz.
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Video: Wynton Marsalis Septet in Warsaw 1994
These old videos come from a concert performed by Wynton and his Septet on November 20, 1994, in Varsaw (Poland).
Personnel was: Wynton Marsalis (trumpet), Wycliffe Gordon (trombone), Wes Anderson (alto sax), Victor Goines (tenor sax), Danilo Perez (piano), Ben Wolfe (bass), Herlin Riley (drums):
Video: Valentine’s Day Concert at JALC
On February 14, 2008, Wynton and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra played the Valentine’s Day concert at Rose Hall - JALC.
The concert featured the everlasting music of Duke Ellington. Here is a selection of songs performed that evening…
