Hints and tips:
...There is no holding back Wynton Marsalis....
...Keith Jarrett is also noted as an influence on the album’s sleeve, as well as the band Weather Report and Blue Note in its 1960s prime....
...Samara Joy Well, I was just 21, so this feels, it honestly, at first it felt daunting, but I’m like, girl, that is so 2002 to be scared of your 30s, like, come on. So, yeah, I have to....
...67 concerts spanning just over a month, this year’s Dresden festival is impressively inclusive, offering soprano Joyce DiDonato, jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, Kent Nagano conducting Wagner and Wynton...
...That is the high note that eludes an otherwise well-made and enjoyable documentary. ★★★★☆ On Apple TV Plus from October 28...
...That has proved to be well wide of the mark....
...There is, unsurprisingly, no hint of lockdown sloppiness as the image of Wynton Marsalis appears on the screen of my laptop....
...Ms Rowling, for example, is unlikely to lose a book contract because of her controversial opinions on trans issues — her work simply sells too well....
...Final thought Wynton Marsalis, the jazz maestro noted for the sharpness of his appearance as well as his playing, has long scrambled around the borders of the personal, the cultural and the political....
...Heard in the context of a standard concert, the music seemed a prodigal hotch-potch of material, not organised well enough to add up to a concerto....
...The rhythm section was American, and equally well versed....
...“When things are going well, I love it. I love it so much....
...His reply: “Well, you’ve got time. I didn’t get married until I was 43 years old. And it worked out just fine. I’m still alive.”...
...“The power dynamics between a man and a woman, between two partners, can translate into a greater political message as well....
...It’s the sort of thing that Wynton Marsalis does with panache, but Schnyder’s preference here is for the solid over the spectacular....
...Four trumpets, three trombones and five saxes render the clucking cacophony of barnyard chickens as well as their jerky gait. Frogs croak in and out of phase, like Steve Reich....
...“Many people have commented on how well-suited this piece is to me,” she says....
...Leading players of the recent past — Wynton Marsalis, The Jazz Messengers — mostly wear slick suits on stage....
...A well-worked slideshow of places and faces added context....
...Elsewhere, Garnett’s compositions reflected his ability to turn the daily round into a wry and well-constructed tune....
...For singers looking for work as well as respect it’s more than just a question of category, particularly when purists can smell a “sellout” at the merest hint of a vocal....
...Even venues hosting esoteric, avant-garde jazz such as the Stone in the East Village are doing well....
...Wynton Marsalis doesn’t have much truck with amplification, and played the entire first house of his short Ronnie Scott’s residency off-mic at the level of an animated conversation....
...The prizewinning Wynton Marsalis discovery’s first studio album is as sharp, opulent and stylish as the title might suggest....
...Initially, a mixed-genre programme didn’t do well. “People interested in a Boswell Sisters kind of act were not at all interested in the avant-garde,” he recalls....
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