"Wynton Kelly Wynton Charles Kelly (December 2, 1931 – April 12, 1971) was a Jamaican American jazz pianist and composer. He is known for his lively, blues-based playing and as one of the finest accompanists in jazz. He began playing professionally at the age of 12, and was pianist on a No. 1 R&B hit at the age of 16. His recording debut as leader occurred three years later, around the time he started to become better known as accompanist to singer Dinah Washington, and as a member of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's band. This progress was interrupted by two years"
"Wynton Marsalis's band. Like Marsalis's, his music is rooted in the traditional jazz of the past. His style has been influenced more by Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller than McCoy Tyner and Bill Evans, with an emphasis on ragtime and stride piano rather than bebop. His album ""New Orleans Meets Harlem, Vol. 1"" (2009) covers music by Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Morton, and Waller. He was commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Savannah Music Festival to write his first piano concerto, ""Spirit of the Blues: Piano Concerto in C-Minor"". He has performed as a soloist in symphony"
"Christmas Jazz Jam Christmas Jazz Jam is a Christmas album by Wynton Marsalis that was released in 2009 by Compass Productions. Musicians on the album include Wessell Anderson on alto saxophone, Vincent Gardner and Wycliffe Gordon on trombone, Victor Goines on saxophone and clarinet, and Herlin Riley on drums. In 2009 the album reached peak positions of number six on ""Billboard"" Jazz Albums chart, number nine on the Top Holiday Albums chart, and number nineteen on the Top Independent Albums chart. In 2010 the album reached number 125 on the ""Billboard"" 200. ""Christmas Jazz Jam"" marked Marsalis' first holiday album"
"in the timbres of the instruments employed, other tonal and rhythmic textures, such as the Indian tambora and tablas and Cuban congas and bongos, create a multi-layered soundscape. The album was a culmination of sorts of the ""musique concrète"" approach that Davis and producer Teo Macero had begun to explore in the late 1960s. The 1980s saw something of a reaction against the fusion and free jazz that had dominated the 1970s. Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis emerged early in the decade, and strove to create music within what he believed was the tradition, rejecting both fusion and free jazz and creating"
"Wynton Marsalis With Ted Nash With Marcus Roberts With Randy Sandke With Ron Westray With Chip White Wycliffe Gordon Wycliffe A. Gordon (born May 29, 1967) is an American jazz trombonist, arranger, composer, band leader, and music educator at the collegiate-conservatory level. Gordon also sings and plays didgeridoo, trumpet, tuba, and piano. His nickname is ""Pinecone"". Gordon was born in Waynesboro, Georgia into a religious and musical background that influenced the early direction of his music. His father, Lucius Gordon (1936–1997), was a church organist at several churches in Burke County, Georgia and a classical pianist and teacher. Gordon took"
"In 2010 the album reached number 125 on the ""Billboard"" 200. Christmas Jazz Jam Christmas Jazz Jam is a Christmas album by Wynton Marsalis that was released in 2009 by Compass Productions. Musicians on the album include Wessell Anderson on alto saxophone, Vincent Gardner and Wycliffe Gordon on trombone, Victor Goines on saxophone and clarinet, and Herlin Riley on drums. In 2009 the album reached peak positions of number six on ""Billboard"" Jazz Albums chart, number nine on the Top Holiday Albums chart, and number nineteen on the Top Independent Albums chart. In 2010 the album reached number 125 on"
"Swingin' with the Duke"" (1999). Under the leadership of Marsalis, the band performs at its home in Lincoln Center, tours throughout the U.S. and abroad, visits schools, appears on television, and performs with symphony orchestras. The Orchestra backed Wynton Marsalis on his album ""Blood on the Fields"", which won the Pulitzer Prize. Since 2015, the Orchestra's albums have been issued on its own label, Blue Engine Records. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is an American big band and jazz orchestra led by Wynton Marsalis. The Orchestra is part of Jazz at Lincoln Center, a"
"Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis, James Moody, Dianne Reeves, Marcus Roberts, Diana Ross, Eric Clapton, Wycliffe Gordon, and Stevie Wonder. He has performed on more than 20 recordings, including the soundtracks for three Ken Burns documentaries and the films ""Undercover Blues"" (1993), ""Night Falls on Manhattan"" (1997), and ""Rosewood"" (1997). He has composed more than 75 original works, including Jazz at Lincoln Center and ASCAP commissions. He has also served on the faculties of Florida A&M University, University of New Orleans, Loyola University of New Orleans, and Xavier University of Louisiana. Goines is an artist for Buffet Crampon and Vandoren. With Wynton"
"in addition to Wynton and Branford Marsalis, the emergence of pianists in the Jazz Messengers such as Donald Brown, Mulgrew Miller, and later, Benny Green, bassists such as Charles Fambrough, Lonnie Plaxico (and later, Peter Washington and Essiet Essiet) horn players such as Bill Pierce, Donald Harrison and later Javon Jackson and Terence Blanchard emerged as talented jazz musicians, all of whom made significant contributions in the 1990s and 2000s. The young Jazz Messengers' contemporaries, including Roy Hargrove, Marcus Roberts, Wallace Roney and Mark Whitfield were also influenced by Wynton Marsalis's emphasis toward jazz tradition. These younger rising stars rejected"
"by Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis and George Benson as a headlining act in a series of JVC Jazz Festival dates. They also played in some of the country's top jazz clubs, including the Blue Note and the Ritz, as well as in concerts ranging from New York's Avery Fisher Hall to Binghamton University. Marlon's fifth album, ""You Don’t Know What Love Is"" (2005), is definitely a family affair, features his sister Stephanie Jordan on breathtaking, silvery vocals on five (5) of the albums eight tracks. Marlon is joined here by his father patriarch Edward Jordan; sister Stephanie, winner of the"
"where he taught Jazz History to wide acclaim among the student body, and has also taught at Cal Arts in Los Angeles. In February 2006, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra performed his music with Gerald Wilson conducting. He had a unique style of conducting: ""Garbed in well tailored suits, his long white hair flowing, Wilson shaped the music with dynamic movements and the elegant grace of a modern dancer."" Asked about his style of conducting by Terry Gross on the NPR show ""Fresh Air"" in 2006, he replied, 'It's different from any style you've ever seen before."
"Cerha, Wynton Marsalis and Brett Dean. His discography currently consists of 9 CDs as a conductor, 15 CDs with solo repertoire, 26 CDs with chamber music and over 200 CDs with Concentus Musicus. He has recorded the Mozart bassoon concerto four times; his third recording was played on a period instrument, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting. Other releases include the concerti by C.M.v. Weber (with Marriner), the quintet for bassoon and strings “Meeelaan” by Wynton Marsalis and a double CD “Bassoon Extravaganza”. On his most recent CDs he conducted three symphonies by J. Haydn and two CDs with the German Ensemble"
"fast to swing. But swing brings out the best in these players; the music is fully alive and afire with ideas. It makes you want to have been there."" Live at the House of Tribes Live at the House of Tribes is an album by Wynton Marsalis that was released in 2005. The performance was recorded in December, 2002 in front of fifty people at a small community theater space in New York's East Village. Allmusic's Matt Collar rated the album four stars and stated, ""Loose, swinging, funky, and spirited, Live at the House of Tribes is an absolute joy."""
"a satisfying finale."" He and She (album) He and She is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that was released in 2009. The album reached a peak of number 6 on the Top Jazz Albums chart of ""Billboard"" magazine. A reviewer at commented ""Down Beat"" that ""Using the vernacular of Langston Hughes, but writing in a formal, Olympian style inspired by Irish national poet William Butler Yeats, Marsalis alternates between words and music, reciting a stanza then dramatizing its theme with his quintet. At the end, he strings all the stanzas together, declaiming his long poem about the trials"
"Wynton Marsalis, and in 1996 with Marcus Roberts. He has released five albums, the most recent in 2013. Additionally, he appeared as himself in the 2005 film ""Little Manhattan"". Harris currently leads the house band at the Carlyle Hotel’s Bemelman’s Bar. “About.” Loston Harris Online. http://www.lostonharris.com/about. Yanow, Scott. “Loston Harris Biography.” Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/loston-harris-mn0000209386/biography. Loston Harris Loston Harris is an American jazz pianist and vocalist. Harris plays primarily from the Great American Songbook in a traditional style. He is a regular performer at various venues in New York City including Jazz at Lincoln Center, has recorded five albums, and appeared in"
"The Majesty of the Blues The Majesty of the Blues is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that was released in 1989. The first two selections on the album are played by the Wynton Marsalis Sextet. The remaining three tracks (side B on the original LP release), a set entitled ""New Orleans Function"", feature the sextet with additional New Orleans musicians in a style influenced by the traditional New Orleans brass band. This section mirrors a traditional jazz funeral, with a dirge-like first selection (""The Death of Jazz""), then a spoken word section (""Premature Autopsies"", an essay by Stanley"
"Reginald Veal Reginald Veal (born November 5, 1963, Chicago) is an American jazz double bassist who was a member of Wynton Marsalis's bands during the 1980s and 1990s. Veal was born in Chicago but raised in New Orleans, where he took piano lessons and was a bass guitarist in a gospel band led by his father. He took lessons on double bass with Ellis Marsalis, father of Wynton Marsalis, and then studied at Southern University, learning bass trombone with Alvin Batiste. He was a touring bassist with Ellis Marsalis from 1986 to 1989 and also worked with Donald Harrison, Harry"
"restaurant in East Lansing, Michigan called Gumbo & Jazz. With Wynton Marsalis Wessell Anderson Wessell ""Warmdaddy"" Anderson (born 1966 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American jazz alto and sopranino saxophonist. Anderson grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, and played jazz early on at the urging of his father, who was a drummer. He played in local clubs from his early teenage years, and studied at the Jazzmobile workshops with Frank Wess, Charles Davis, and Frank Foster. He also met Branford Marsalis, who convinced him to study with Alvin Batiste at Southern University in Louisiana. Soon after this, Anderson"
"Wynton Marsalis's Blood on the Fields and All Rise, and the storyline features a doomed interracial romance in 1920's Louisiana. The composition was supported by Dillard University. In 2005 he joined Wynton Marsalis at the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In 2006 Mayfield performed at the White House in Washington, D.C.. Mayfield was nominated to the National Council on the Arts by President George W. Bush and was appointed to the post by President Barack Obama in 2010. He and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra opened The People's Health New Orleans Jazz Market"
"Live at the House of Tribes Live at the House of Tribes is an album by Wynton Marsalis that was released in 2005. The performance was recorded in December, 2002 in front of fifty people at a small community theater space in New York's East Village. Allmusic's Matt Collar rated the album four stars and stated, ""Loose, swinging, funky, and spirited, Live at the House of Tribes is an absolute joy."" Jazz critic Ben Ratliff of the New York Times says of the album, ""Throughout the record, the playing almost never goes outside of tonality, and the rhythm section holds"
"Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz at Lincoln Center is part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The organization was founded in 1987 and opened in October 2004. Wynton Marsalis is the artistic director and the leader of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The Center hosts performances by the Orchestra and by visiting musicians. Many concerts are streamed live on the Center's YouTube channel. The Center also presents educational programs in its home buildings, online, and in schools throughout the country. In 1987, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was involved in starting the Classical Jazz concert series,"
"Wynton Marsalis With others Harry Connick Jr. Others Roger Ingram Roger O'Neal Ingram (born November 13, 1957) is a jazz trumpeter, educator, author, and instrument designer. He played trumpet for the orchestras of Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, Wynton Marsalis, Ray Charles, and Harry Connick Jr. The youngest of three children, Ingram was born November 13, 1957 in Pasadena, California. His mother ran the household and worked as a tailor and dressmaker from their home in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles; his father was a freelance artist, actor, and musician. His father worked as a staff animator on early Popeye cartoons and"
"Marcus Roberts, and Courtney Pine, he shunned the spotlight to focus on teaching. Marsalis's didactic approach, combined with an interest in philosophy, encourages his students to make discoveries in music on their own, through experiment and very careful listening. As a leading educator at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the University of New Orleans, and Xavier University of Louisiana, Ellis has influenced the careers of countless musicians, including Terence Blanchard, Harry Connick Jr., Nicholas Payton; as well as his four musician sons: Wynton, Branford, Delfeayo and Jason. In May, 2007, Marsalis received an honorary doctorate from Tulane University"
"He and She (album) He and She is an album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that was released in 2009. The album reached a peak of number 6 on the Top Jazz Albums chart of ""Billboard"" magazine. A reviewer at commented ""Down Beat"" that ""Using the vernacular of Langston Hughes, but writing in a formal, Olympian style inspired by Irish national poet William Butler Yeats, Marsalis alternates between words and music, reciting a stanza then dramatizing its theme with his quintet. At the end, he strings all the stanzas together, declaiming his long poem about the trials of love in"
"evaluating an art from which they feel substantially alienated."" Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has called Crouch ""my best friend in the world"" and ""mentor"". The two met after Marsalis, at the age of 17, went to New York to attend the Juilliard School. The two have shared a close relationship ever since, Crouch having written liner notes for Marsalis' albums since his debut album in 1982. When Marsalis served as ""Senior Creative Consultant"" for Ken Burns' 2001 documentary ""Jazz"", Crouch served on the film's advisory board and appears extensively. Some jazz critics and aficionados cited the participation of Marsalis and Crouch"
"Connick Jr., Marcus Roberts, and Terence Blanchard during this time. He began working in the bands of Wynton Marsalis in 1987 and in the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in the early 1990s. In 1994 he moved to Atlanta, where he continued to work with Wynton and Ellis as well as Branford Marsalis. He has also worked with Leroy Jones, Junko Onishi, Nicholas Payton, Courtney Pine, Eric Reed, Dianne Reeves, Ahmad Jamal and Greg Tardy. Reginald Veal Reginald Veal (born November 5, 1963, Chicago) is an American jazz double bassist who was a member of Wynton Marsalis's bands during the 1980s"
"did not discuss it."" Blood on the Fields Blood on the Fields is a two-and-a-half-hour jazz oratorio, by Wynton Marsalis. It was commissioned by Lincoln Center and concerns a couple moving from slavery to freedom. It received the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Music. However, Marsalis's victory was controversial because according to the Pulitzer guidelines, his work was not eligible. Although a winning work was supposed to have had its first performance during that year, Marsalis' piece premiered on April 1, 1994 and its recording, released on Columbia Records, was dated 1995. Yet, the piece won the 1997 prize. Marsalis' management"
"in Jackson Square in the French Quarter. White began working regularly with Colar. White can be heard on the 1989 album ""The Majesty of the Blues"" by Wynton Marsalis. Marsalis appears on White's 1990 album ""Crescent City Serenade"" with Wendell Brunious and Walter Payton. Since 1979 White has played in the Young Tuxedo Brass Band, founded by clarinetist John Casimir sometime in the 1940s. During the 1980s he led a band called The New Orleans Hot Seven. Performing ""A Tribute to Jelly Roll Morton"" in concert with them at the Lincoln Center in New York City in 1989 led to"
"Wynton Marsalis but that she has her own way of ""using timbre and harmony to bring a tactile presence to the dimensions of sound."" Chinen added that her orchestra planned to perform this pastoral composition at the Birdland club in New York City. Doug Ramsey at ""Arts Journal"" called ""The Thompson Fields"" a suite because of ""its unity of style and its mood of reflection."" In the UK, Ivan Hewett of ""The Daily Telegraph"" comments on the importance of the liner notes, the bird paintings by Audubon, and how the music mimics the Minnesota landscape's ""quality of being both huge"
"time he has transcribed, edited, and restored nearly 300 works for big band deemed by the Smithsonian as national treasures. Wallarab also performs as lead and solo trombonist for the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the ensemble-in-residence of the National Museum of American History, a position he has held since the inception of the orchestra in 1991. Wallarab is an arranger, composer, teacher, and performera who has toured northern Italy and South Africa, conducting master classes, workshops, and performances. As an arranger, Wallarab is featured on dozens of recordings and has written for many artists including Wynton Marsalis, the Lincoln Center"
"Wynton Marsalis, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas, Isaac Stern and Helen Huang. His recordings have been critically acclaimed, winning several Grammy nominations and The Gramophone’s Record of the Year award. He has been a member of the Juilliard School faculty since 1991, and, in 2006, he also started to teach at Rice University. Lin is currently the music director of La Jolla SummerFest in California since 2001, and as the music director for Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival since 2011. An avid chamber musician, Lin appears at the Beijing Music Festival, as well as his perennial appearances"
"hard bop. Soul Jazz proved to be a boon to Jazz clubs, because since organ trios were based around the powerful Hammond organ, a three-piece organ trio could fill a nightclub with the same full sound that in previous years would have required a five- or six-piece band. The 1980s saw something of a reaction against the fusion and free jazz that had dominated the 1970s. Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis emerged early in the decade, and strove to create music within what he believed was the tradition, rejecting both fusion and free jazz and creating extensions of the small and large"
"up."" ""People Magazine"" praised the album, calling out the ""four distinct blues-guitar styles"" and the ""verve and execution"" of the quartet numbers as high points. ""Entertainment Weekly"" characterized Marsalis as ""a commanding, even great, saxophonist of the post-hard-bop school, but a wayward conceptualist,"" and criticized the album as suffering from a ""serious identity crisis."" I Heard You Twice the First Time I Heard You Twice the First Time is a jazz album by Branford Marsalis that explores different aspects of the blues, featuring guest appearances from B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Russell Malone, Wynton Marsalis and Linda Hopkins. It peaked"