The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is releasing a new album of music composed by jazz and classical music legend Wynton Marsalis. Marsalis wrote Blues Symphony in 2009, and it’s now the Detroit Symphony ...
Rooms have been buzzing with the sound of jazz legend Wynton Marsalis' smooth trumpet playing for over half a century now. The world-renowned musician — a nine-time Grammy Award winner and Pulitzer ...
The solo trumpet part in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #2 remains one of the most challenging in the repertoire, and Wynton Marsalis navigates it with fluidity and grace. Hear that and more this morning ...
SAN DIEGO – Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire and proto-rap group the Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
This weekend, superstar violinist Nicola Benedetti will perform a feat of musical versatility. Fresh off two years of performing Wynton Marsalis’ wild, polarizing Concerto in D, she will return to the ...
The seven-movement symphony was over a decade in the making and is now regarded as one of Marsalis's most innovative and expansive compositions, representing the scope of America's musical heritage.
Founder and artistic director of Jazz at the Lincoln Center Wynton Marsalis is stepping down after nearly 40 years in the role.
The eldest son in a famous clan of jazz musicians, saxophonist/composer/educator Branford Marsalis is enjoying a robust and variegated career. Known mainly as a jazz ...
Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, and proto-rap group The Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer ...