Articles tagged "wynton marsalis"

Music Review

Wynton Marsalis: He and She

by Will Layman

[30.Mar.09] :. The great trumpeter brings his quintet to a project combining music and poetry -- and the music is great.

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TV Review

Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Feb.09] :. As framed in Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, carpenter Irving Trevigne's will to preserve the past is admirable but also set against a series of challenges.

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TV DVD Review

Live from Abbey Road:  The Best of Season One

by Thomas Britt

[21.Jan.09] :. This release meets high visual and aural standards, honoring Abbey Road's unmatched reputation as a recording studio.

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Music Review

Wynton Marsalis: Standards and Ballads

by Will Layman

[11.Feb.08] :. A collection of purely played jazz standards/ballads plucked from the trumpeter's huge Columbia catalog.

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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2007 Feature

Full Frame 3: The Bad, the Ugly, the Cute and the Delicious

by Kevin Greer, Jyllian Gunther, and Isaac Miller

[11.May.07] :. Subversive behavior is encouraged, girl-watching is indulged, Hunter S. Thompson gets some respect, and the pig-out at the wrap-up Awards Barbeque begins.

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News

Upholding standards: Wynton Marsalis goes on the record again

by Dan DeLuca [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[6.Mar.07] :. In 1985, when Wynton Marsalis was 23, the jazz trumpeter released an LP called “Black Codes (From the Underground).” The high point of Marsalis’ Miles Davis period also marked his...

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Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.07] :. From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance.

 
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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Aug.06] :. When the Levees Broke, elegant and anguished, encourages you to see, and more importantly, to care about and act on what you see. It is political in the most significant sense, and won't let you forget it.

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Wynton Marsalis: Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

by Robert R. Calder

[24.Jan.05] :. For purely circumstantial reasons, I’ve missed seeing Ken Burns’ Jazz in its entirety. What I’ve seen suggested a preoccupation with public history at the expense of jazz...

 

    Wynton Marsalis: Popular Songs: The Best of Wynton Marsalis

by Michael Stephens

[30.Jul.01] :. First names of jazz: Louis; Charlie; Dizzy; Billie; Thelonious; Miles; Ornette; Wynton… Wynton? Popular Songs: The Best of Wynton Marsalis celebrates Wynton Marsalis’s...