Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. LOUIS, a contemporary silent film about Louis Armstrong, will be brought to ...
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 ...
Better than: Fighting the jazz wars. “My father was the family bassman,” sang Paul Simon on a song from Simon and Garfunkel’s last album, a line as true as confessional poetry. Like Paul McCartney and ...
At first, it was a classic novel from S.E. Hinton. Then it became a classic film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Now, this popular coming-of-age story about a group of young men in 1960s-era Tulsa, ...
New York City's premier jazz venue got the blues when Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton performed together in Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center for two sold-out ...
When trumpeter Wynton Marsalis admonishes a member of the audience for only flying a Texas flag but not one from Louisiana, someone yells back “Laissez les Bon Temps Roulet!” bringing a smile to his ...
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 ...
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 ...