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Wynton Marsalis

April 2024

  • Alison Balsom on stage with Antonio Pappano in Bristol.

    LSO/Pappano/Balsom review – elephant honks kick off Wynton Marsalis’s trumpet showcase

  • Trumpet soloist Alison Balsom performed with the L.A. Philharmonic, conducted by Bramwell Tovey, on his "Songs of the Paradise Saloon," at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Nov. 10, 2013. (Photo by Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

    Alison Balsom: ‘This is the most important piece written for the trumpet in 200 years’

June 2020

  • An attendee at a memorial service for George Floyd in Los Angeles on Monday 8 June.

    The US is still segregated – but is our democracy up to the challenge?

    Wynton Marsalis
    We’re seeing the same problems with race that Abraham Lincoln once complained about, but blackness is threaded into the heart of America’s identity and can never be erased

April 2020

  • Ellis Marsalis performing at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival, May 2017.

    Ellis Marsalis, jazz pianist and father to Wynton and Branford, dies aged 85

    New Orleans star, who was admitted to hospital with Covid-19 symptoms, saluted as ‘giant of a musician and even greater father’

June 2019

  • Nicola Benedetti Cheltenham Festival 2016

    Nicola Benedetti: ‘Even aged six, I was moved to tears by music’

    The celebrated violinist on working with Wynton Marsalis, music education – and classical music’s supposed image problem

July 2018

  • Emile Parisien, second from left, with his quintet.

    Emile Parisien Quintet: Sfumato Live in Marciac review – an outstanding concert captured

    (ACT)

February 2016

  • Wayne Shorter with the JLCO at the Barbican on Thursday.

    Wayne Shorter/JLCO review – bravura and cool as jazz giant comes to town

    Wynton Marsalis’s 15-piece Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra did a good job of keeping up with saxophonist Wayne Shorter’s unleashed improvisations

November 2015

  • James Gaffigan.

    LSO/Gaffigan review – Nicola Benedetti does her best with unrestrained Marsalis

  • Wynton Marsalis, with Dan Nimmer (piano) and Carlos Henriquez (bass) of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

    Music blog
    Wynton Marsalis: trumpeting controversial ideas of classicism

March 2015

  • FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2014, file photo, musician Wynton Marsalis performs during a memorial service for actress Ruby Dee at The Riverside Church in New York. It was announced Wednesday, March 11, 2015, that Marsalis is scratching a concert in Venezuela amid rising tensions between Venezuela and the U.S. that are making it harder for U.S. citizens to travel to the South American country. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

    Wynton Marsalis cancels Venezuela concert amid rising tensions with US

    Recent political volleys between the Obama administration and the Venezuelan president prompt drop of Caracas show from South American tour

July 2014

  • Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis

    Wynton Marsalis/Sachal Jazz Ensemble review – lively east-west fling

    Marsalis's fusion project with Pakistan's legendary Sachal Jazz Ensemble was a gentle schooling in ingenuity and improvisation, writes John Fordham

June 2014

  • Of Montreal

    This week's new live music
    Camden Crawl, Edwyn Collins, Kings Of Leon: this week's new live music

    Camden Crawl | Edwyn Collins | Kings Of Leon | Russell Haswell: Earthquake Mass | Wynton Marsalis | Royal Opera & Opéra De Rouen: Quartett

August 2013

  • Wynton Marsalis

    Music blog
    Take five: John Fordham's month in jazz – July

    John Fordham picks out his musical milestones of recent weeks, and some imminent ones – from Wynton Marsalis to two great British pianists. Tell us below what you'd like to see John cover next month

July 2013

  • Wynton Marsalis at Ronnie Scott's

    Music blog
    Wynton Marsalis at Ronnie Scott's: expect a return to jazz's golden age

  • Wu-Tang Clan

    This week's new live music
    Wu-Tang Clan, Atoms For Peace, Akron/Family: this week's new live music

January 2013

  • Wycliffe Gordon: Dreams of New Orleans – review

    Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and a top-class band breathe fresh life into these New Orleans standards, finds Dave Gelly

November 2012

  • Miles Davis in 1989

    From Rock's Backpages
    Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults

    With the London jazz festival upon us, we head back to 1985 for this NME encounter with the great trumpeter, in our latest visit to Rock's Backpages, the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism

July 2012

  • Simon Rattle conducts the LSO and the Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra

    JLCO/LSO/Rattle – review

    Simon Rattle let the performers loose on Wynton Marsalis's exploration of the swing tradition, writes George Hall
  • Wynton Marsalis

    Take 5: John Fordham's month in jazz
    Take Five: John Fordham's month in jazz – July

    In this fourth of a series of monthly columns, John Fordham picks out his musical milestones from recent weeks, and suggests a few to come. Tell us in the comments below if there's things we've missed, plus what you'd like to see John covering in next month's column

  • Wynton Marsalis and Odadaa! at the Barbican, London

    Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis – review

    Wynton Marsalis leaves his comfort zone to investigate jazz's African roots in what is ultimately a fascinating failure, writes John Lewis
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