Wynton Marsalis News

Carla Cook, Brandon Victor Dixon, Jared Grimes and Adriane Lenox have been cast in Duke Ellington's Cotton Club Parade, opening November 18 at New York City Center.

The SHIRAH Community Chorus on the Palisades, led by Matthew Lazar, founding director and conductor, will perform its 2011 Chanukah Concert on Sunday, December 11 at 3 p.m. in the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades' (411 East Clinton Avenue) Taub Auditorium.

New York City Center will reopen following a historic renovation and modernization with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and star-studded gala on Tuesday, October 25 at New York City Center.

New York City Center will reopen following a historic renovation and modernization with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and star-studded gala on Tuesday, October 25 at New York City Center. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will conduct the Encores! Orchestra in the opening number (as a nod to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who conducted the New York Philharmonic when City Center opened as a performing arts center in 1943).

New York City Center will reopen following a historic renovation and modernization with a star-studded gala on October 25.

As Pulitzer and 9-time Grammy Award®-winner Wynton Marsalis eases into his 50th birthday on October 18, 2011, he casts his memory back a dozen years to 1998-99.

The Blue Note is proud to present the JONATHAN BATISTE & THE STAY HUMAN BAND CD/DVD release for My N.Y. at Rockwood on November 1, 2011.

On October 15 Tony-nominated actors Liz Callaway and Ann Hampton Callaway come to Pace Presents in BOOM!, their acclaimed show featuring music by such artists as Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Carly Simon, The Beatles, Paul Simon, Jimmy Webb and Stevie Wonder. Over the course of a single evening, the two sisters will lead audiences through humorous and heartwarming stories of their Chicago and New York pasts putting their unmistakable stamp on classics like 'Both Sides Now,' 'Up, Up and Away,' 'That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be,' 'Bridge Over Troubled Water,' 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow?' and 'Downtown.'

Master drummer Herlin Riley will lead a group of Loyola University New Orleans jazz majors in a program of standards and original compositions on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Satchmo's, located in the basement of the Danna Student Center on the university's main campus.

The JCC Thurnauer School of Music, New Jersey's leading community music school, named a Major Arts Institution by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, has announced Steven Masi Performs Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas, a nine-part concert series presented over three seasons (three concerts per season) from 2011 to 2014.

The New Frontier Story Lab has selected Question Bridge as part of the five project teams to attend. The lab will focus on supporting projects that have original stories and engage audiences in innovative ways, across multiple platforms. Organized as an immersive lab experience, activities will include individualized story sessions, conversations about key artistic, design and technology issues, and case study presentations. Drawing talent and expertise from all of Sundance Institute's creative programs, including Feature Film, Documentary Film, and the Sundance Film Festival, the Lab has been planned under the supervision of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program.

This Jazz sextet, Innocent When You Dream, interprets the unique beauty of the songs of Tom Waits.

On October 15 Tony-nominated actors Liz Callaway and Ann Hampton Callaway come to Pace Presents in BOOM!, their acclaimed show featuring music by such artists as Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Carly Simon, The Beatles, Paul Simon, Jimmy Webb and Stevie Wonder. Over the course of a single evening, the two sisters will lead audiences through humorous and heartwarming stories of their Chicago and New York pasts putting their unmistakable stamp on classics like 'Both Sides Now,' 'Up, Up and Away,' 'That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be,' 'Bridge Over Troubled Water,' 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow?' and 'Downtown.'

The 2012 US Bank Portland Jazz Festival presented by Alaska Airlines will be held Friday, February 17 through Sunday, February 26 at venues throughout Portland. The 9th annual 11 day festival will include jazz education and outreach along with a series of concerts featuring an eclectic mix of internationally recognized and local musicians playing a wide-range of jazz styles.

'Celebrating Cannonball and Coltrane,' an evening of jazz honoring an historic recording by musicians John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, will kick off Loyola University New Orleans' Jazz Underground series on Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in Satchmo's, located in the Danna Student Center on the university's main campus.

Master drummer Herlin Riley will lead a group of Loyola University New Orleans jazz majors in a program of standards and original compositions on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Satchmo's, located in the basement of the Danna Student Center on the university's main campus.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis plays Sunday, September 25, 7 p.m. at Whitney Hall

Victoria Theatre Association and Cityfolk will co-present the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 8 p.m. in the Mead Theatre of the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center.

New York City Center will reopen following a historic renovation and modernization with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and star-studded gala on Tuesday, October 25 at New York City Center.

As Pulitzer and 9-time Grammy Award®-winner Wynton Marsalis eases into his 50th birthday on October 18, 2011, he casts his memory back a dozen years to 1998-99.