Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has been a longtime jazz master and advocate for jazz as America's classical music. Akron audiences will have the opportunity to see him perform with the Jazz at Lincoln ...
Jazz legends Wynton Marsalis and Vincent Gardner are shaping Houston's future through Jazz Houston, inspiring high school ...
In the liner notes to the Uptown Jazz Orchestra’s new CD, “Jazz Party,” trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis describes an encounter in Stockholm, Sweden, with a fan who wanted to know what kind of jazz he ...
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 ...
One day years ago, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was hanging with Willie Nelson and Ray Charles when the two older musicians started to talk about their long and diverse careers. “Ray, you know, you ...
On June 1, Delfeayo Marsalis invited the Uptown Jazz Orchestra’s audience at Snug Harbor to help create a “spontaneous” song. What key should it be in, he asked; an audience member suggested E-flat.
Witness jazz greatness firsthand at one of Northern Virginia’s most beloved venues this week. Wynton Marsalis performs with the Harlem School of the Arts All Stars, during an event with first lady ...
NEW ORLEANS — Ellis Marsalis Jr., the patriarch of a New Orleans musical family, known for his brand of modern jazz as well as for educating generations of musicians as a teacher, has died, according ...
Some of the most memorable jazz albums of 2025 are by Linda May Han Oh, Branford Marsalis, Mary Halvorson, Yazz Ahmed, Mary ...