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Jazz Fest 2012 Will Feature Legend-Filled Lineup

Posted 04.18.2012

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This Labor Day weekend, the 33rd annual Detroit Jazz Festival will sound off on Detroit's riverfront with an all-star line up. The roster for the free...

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CBS Names New Cultural Correspondent

Posted 12.15.2011

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Famed musician, composer and Pulitzer Prize winner Wynton Marsalis was named CBS News cultural correspondent on Thursday. The network announced tha...

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Live-Stream Tonight's 9/11 Tribute Concert At The Kennedy Center, Feat. Emmylou, Wynton, And More

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 11.08.2011

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WASHINGTON (Associated Press) -- A tribute concert at the Kennedy Center to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks featuring Wynton Marsali...

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Jazz Legend Wynton Marsalis To Perform In S.Africa

AP | By DONNA BRYSON | Posted 10.24.2011

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JOHANNESBURG -- Famed American trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis shared memories of his childhood and played a few tunes Tuesday in South Africa ...

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Chess, Jazz and Hockey Legends in Prague

Lubomir Kavalek | Posted 09.02.2011

Read More: Vishy Anand, Chess News, Vaclav Klaus, Dominik Hasek, Jaromir Jagr, Alexei Shirov, Veselin Topalov, Anatoly Karpov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Garry Kasparov, Nhl, Michal Neurvirth, Jan Novak, Jiri Stivin, Wynton Marsalis, Tomas Vokoun, Sports News
Lubomir Kavalek

2011-07-03-Screenshot20110703at4.55.19PM.jpg World chess champion Vishy Anand visited Prague shortly before Czech president Vaclav Klaus celebrated his 70th birthday with a jazz concert at the Prague castle.

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Jazz Takes a Back Seat at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Brian Ross | Posted 07.07.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Alternative Music, Pop Music, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Christian McBride, Music, Dixieland, Arts, Jazz History, Jazz, Chick Corea, Lady GaGa, Wynton Marsalis, Justin Bieber, Entertainment News
Brian Ross

Jazz needs a spark. It needs a new direction. Respect the history, but for it to thrive, it needs to be cool again. It needs to be counter-culture. It needs to piss off more parents.

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New Orleans: Ground Zero in the Cultural War

Brian Ross | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Alabama, Birmingham, Emeril Lagasse, George W. Bush, Bureaucracy, CULTURAL WARFARE, Tennessee Williams, Culture, Ideologies, Hurricane Katrina, Ground Zero, Harry Connick Jr., Jazz, Wynton Marsalis, Living, Hurricane, Big Insurance, Louisiana, Politics, American Values, Fema, 9th Ward, Barack Obama, William Faulkner, Democrats, Louis Armstrong, Bryant Gumbel, Federal Government, Birthers, Republicans, Flood, New Orleans-Louisiana, Katrina, Politics News
Brian Ross

The Founding Fathers defined the boundaries of liberty and freedom. New Orleans lives them. The birthplace of jazz. The true birthplace of Rock-and-Ro...

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Wynton Marsalis And Eric Clapton Play The Blues

Ralph A. Miriello | Posted 06.10.2011

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Ralph A. Miriello

Eric Clapton's foray into the roots of early jazz and its undeniable linkage to the blues was a rousing success and further affirms Mr. Clapton as a truly versatile musician.

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The Brand of Jazz

Joseph Vella | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter Arnell, Kenny G, Esperanza Spalding, Wynton Marsalis, Jazz Online, My Midlife Jazz Crisis, Joseph Vella, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Facebook, Miles Davis, Norah Jones, Arts News
Joseph Vella

The issue of branding has increasingly become a driving force in everything we do both personally and professionally.  Just think of Facebook and how...

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Stars To Headline Japan Fundraiser In West Village

NBC New York | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: NY Around Town, Japan Earthquake 2011, Wynton Marsalis, Martha Stewart, Ny News, Ny Impact, New York News

Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis and his quintet will join domestic diva Martha Stewart to headline a local fundraiser to benefit the victims of Japan’...

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Stage Door: Ute Lemper -- The Music of Kurt Weill

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lincoln Center, Jazz, Wynton Marsalis, Ute Lemper, Music, Kurt Weill, Entertainment, Cabaret, New York, Arts News
Fern Siegel

If Kurt Weill were alive, he'd worship Ute Lemper. The songs of pre-war German composers, especially Weill, forged her musical identity -- and the se...

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Wynton Marsalis, "60 minutes" and the Case for People-to-People Travel to Cuba

Anya Landau French | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anya Landau French

For those who missed it, 60 Minutes aired a segment on last October's visit to Havana by Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra earl...

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From D.C.'s Kennedy Center to East of Angel Town: Conversations with Branford Marsalis and Peter Cincotti

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nea, The Commodores, Daniel Radcliffe, Funkadelic, Spider-Man, Josh Groban, The Kennedy Center, Keith Jarret, Miles Davis, Billy Joel, Jochem Van Der Saag, Otis Redding, Alexa Ray Joel, Ellis Marsalis, Shostakovich, David Foster, Delfeayo Marsalis, Louis Armstrong, Elton John, Harry Connick Jr., Wynton Marsalis, Brahms, Charlie Parker, James Brown, Parliament, Branford Marsalis, New York Philharmonic, Frankie Trumbauer, Ornette Coleman, Led Zeppelin, Peter Cincotti, Mahler, December Boys, Humberto Gatica, Donald Harrison, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Montreal Jazz Festival, Sidney Bechet, Pink Floyd, Teo Macero, American Idol, Jimi Hendrix, King Crimson, Prokofiev, Sting, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Legendary jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis has been accumulating a series of honors, with the upcoming NEA's Jazz Masters Award being one of the most prestigious yet.

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Wynton Marsalis' Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra Traveling To Cuba

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is traveling to Cuba next month for a series of concerts in Havana with bandleader W...

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WATCH: JAZZ ON FILM: Wynton Marsalis Scores 'Louis," Plus Five Great Jazz Scores

Posted 05.25.2011

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Can't say he didn't focus on the music... Filmmaker Dan Pritzker's latest effort, Louis, is loosely based on the childhood of jazz legend Louis Armstr...

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Wynton Marsalis Performing Live At Louis Armstrong Biopic Premiere

Posted 05.25.2011

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While Chicago native Dan Pritzker was working on a film about pioneering jazz trumpeter Buddy Bolden, he took his mother to see Charlie Chaplin's "Cit...

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French Contemporary Artist and Legend CharlElie Couture in New York City

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Rock Manifesto, Switzerland, Local à Louer, Writer, French Contemporary Art, Thought Leaders, Island Record, Wikipedia, Global Citizens, French Embassy, Painting, Oiww, Russell Simmons, Photography, John Lee, Wynton Marsalis, Charlélie Couture, Tom Novembre, Editions Du Chene, Sculpture, Inner Landscapes, Damon Dash, New York City, Composer, 12 Songs in Sawdust, France, Art Search, Def Jam Music, Les Champs Paraboliques, The Big RE-Construction, Painter, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-Arts, Art, Global Citizenship Award, Orphans International Worldwide, Singer, Manifeste De L?Art Rock, Neo-Constructivism, Photo-Grafs, Dadaism, Multism, New York News
Jim Luce

We first met French Contemporary Artist CharlElie Couture at the French Embassy in New York for the Wynton Marsalis ceremony in the fall of 2009. He ...

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Calling All Lincoln Square, Upper West Side Celebs

Marta Hallowell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marta Hallowell

We need affordable housing so that the actors, musicians, singers and ballerinas who work all along Broadway, and who delight our eyes and ears and hearts, can live near where they work.

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HuffPost Reviews: Jack Johnson, Icons Among Us, and Gotan Project, Plus STP News, and a Conversation With Greg Laswell

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adam Topol, Michael Rivoira, Philippe Cohen Solal, Peter J. Vogt, Zach Gill, Stp, Sam WInchester, Nicholas Payton, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Ravi Coltrane, Christoph Mueller, Grey's Anatomy, Greg Laswell, Wynton Marsalis, Dean Winchester, Donald Harrison Jr., Robert Glasper, G Love, Esperanza Spalding, Wayne Shorter, Snoopy, Terence Blanchard, Eduardo Makaroff, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, Stone Temple Pilots, Supernatural, Herbie Hancock, Corona, Gotan Project, Merlo Podlewski, Paula Fuga, Lars Larson, Nic Harcourt, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Come on. Didn't you think this guy was over after that nutty Curious George soundtrack? Well, weren't we wrong, oh Jack Johnson judges that we were.

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The Brooklyn Steppers March Forward, Giving to the Community and Gaining in the Process

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Borough President, High School Graduation, United Nations, Music, JHS 113, Arts, Thought Leaders, Queens, CUNY System, Antonio Thompson, Brooklyn Steppers, Youth Leadership, Facebook, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Haiti, Global Citizens, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Oiww, Musical Instruments, Columbia University, Community Involvement, Community Service, Inner City Life, Ohio, Academics, Barack Obama Inauguration, Orphans International Worldwide, Wynton Marsalis, New York University, Music Programs, Marty Markowitz, New York News
Jim Luce

In high school I had been manager of our marching band in Ohio. It was a grueling task, but rewarding to see my friends play and march so well. The ...

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Stewardship Report: First Ambassador Writes Op-Ed "Diplomatic Viewpoint"

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

The Hon. Kenneth H. Merten, American Ambassador to Haiti, has written the first "Diplomatic Viewpoint" for The Jim Luce Stewardship Report launched tw...

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Black History Month Events In New York

Posted 05.25.2011

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As we enter the second week of Black History Month, New York City is offering a host of activities to participate in. There are lectures, concerts, fi...

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Hang Out With Marsalis, Domingo, Gilbert and Others -- For Free

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Kevin Kline, Beverly Sills, Thomas Mellins, Martin Scorsese, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Patti LuPone, Lincoln Center, Audra McDonald, Placido Domingo, Leonard Bernstein, Maurice Sendak, Peter Martins, Alan Gilbert, Wynton Marsalis, New York News
Jane Levere

How's this for a holiday gift? Time with Placido Domingo, Alan Gilbert, Peter Martins, Wynton Marsalis and Audra McDonald, free of charge, at the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts.

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Obama Salutes Walter Cronkite At Memorial Service

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — By all accounts, Walter Cronkite would have loved the war stories swapped and memories rekindled at his memorial service. All that was mi...

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Interview: Visionary Entertainer Josh Charles

2morrowknight | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Jelly Roll Morton, Healing Time, Professor Longhair, R&b, Preservation Resource Center, Music, Josh Charles, Twitter, Jazz, Lil Wayne, Dr. John, Facebook, Gregg Rubin, Neville Brothers, Louis Armstrong, Healing Time Foundation, Zydeco, Katrina, Blues, Funk, Rock & Roll, Grammy Award, Gospel, Wynton Marsalis, Motown, Dixieland, Entertainment News
2morrowknight

"When you write a song, you never know how it will evolve," Charles said. "I've been approached by people who are recovering from cancer and they have shared stories with me of how 'Healing Time' has helped them."

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