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McPartland's 90th-birthday celebration continues with more one-of-a-kind performances from a special concert at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in Jazz at Lincoln Center. Pianist Jason Moran performs a McPartland original and Wynton Marsalis joins her for a rousing version of "All the Things You Are."
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In March 2007, more than 30 lifelong jazz musicians were celebrated at the Kennedy Center for their contributions to a unique art form. JazzSet presents a recording of the concert companion to the awards ceremony, featuring Dave Brubeck, Nancy Wilson, and more.
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Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis says that music is the "art of the invisible" — it is memory, intention and imagination. Marsalis explains his relationship to jazz in his new book, Moving to Higher Ground, and talks about how music changed his life.
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Country music legend Willie Nelson and jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis discover common ground and a mutual love of jazz standards and the blues on their album Two Men With The Blues. Here, the artists discuss their first-ever collaboration.
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Every decade or so, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis says, he makes a political album. From the Plantation to the Penitentiary is his latest. The songs criticize hip-hop culture, a lack of strong black leadership and materialism.
()Tributes to boxer Jack Johnson from Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis; An intimate home recording from Cantinero; A look at opposite day with Andrew Bird; The Who sung a Capella by Petra Haden; Brother/sister duo The Fiery Furnaces; A new EP from folk hero Iron and Wine; L.A. singer/songwriter Mia Doi Todd; Norwegian jazz: Tord Gustavsen Trio; Latin percussionist Roberto Rodriguez.
()The magic hour with Wynton Marsalis; A bit of blues from The Mountain Goats; The lo-fi world of John Vanderslice; New music from Chicago's Tortoise; and rethinking the blues with Tarbox Ramblers. Featured Artist: Nellie McKay.
()Wynton Marsalis interprets Thelonious Monk; the playful melodies of Raymond Scott; Roger Eno joins Kate St. John for "Our Man In Havana"; Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss sing a classic from the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou?; plus British folk singer Kate Rusby, Sam Phillips, and the mysterious sounds of Radiohead.
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Esquire music columnist Andy Langer runs through this week's new CD releases, including albums by Beck, Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis, and Mugison.
()Day to Day music critic David Was comments on the musical score of Unforgivable Blackness, the new Ken Burns documentary about boxer Jack Johnson. Was compares the music, composed by Wynton Marsalis, to the score of an older movie about Johnson composed by jazz legend Miles Davis.
()Wynton Marsalis plays the trumpet — he's not just a Grammy award winning trumpet player, but a Pulitzer award-winning trumpeter. Wynton has released his first small ensemble jazz cd in 5 years. It's called The Magic Hour. Reviewer Jim Fusilli finds delight in the record, with clever performances. He also finds some of the jazz Wynton plays sometimes backward looking.
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Pittsburgh-based NPR member station WDUQ broadcasts more than 100 hours of jazz programming every week -- a lineup that includes its share of holiday music around this time of year.
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In a companion broadcast with PBS, NPR presents "One Family of Jazz" -- the opening night gala concerts at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, its new state-of-the art home for jazz in the Time Warner building on Columbus Circle in New York.
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Wynton Marsalis has been playing the trumpet since he was 6, and won his first Grammy at 20 and has 9 total. He's also the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize. His latest album is The Magic Hour. (This Interview first aired Dec. 7, 1994.)
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