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Critically acclaimed jazz vocalist, Michelle Walker, will perform in double bill concerts with jazz vocalist Sachal Vasandani while on tour with The Yakov Okun Trio in Russia from November 22-29th . Michelle has spent the past few years amassing an impressive musical resume of concert and festival performances, including The Lincoln Center-Women in ...

Cathedral City High School trumpeter Matt Cross loves jazz. His favorite trumpet player is the classical virtuoso and hipster Wynton Marsalis.

On Thursday night , November 19, at the Long Hill Senior Center, 769 Valley Road, Gillette N.J., a rare double bill jazz concert featuring some of the country's top jazz musicians will take plake place at the American Music Jazz Legends awards concert.

Jazz at Lincoln Center is bringing classic American popular song into its fold with the appointment of the singer and pianist Michael Feinstein as director of its new popular music series.

Wynton Marsalis is already the most renowned jazz musician of his generation. Now, he's trying out a new musical style: mixing classical with the blues.

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Brooklyn-born saxophonist Wess Anderson studied under Alvin Batiste at Southern University and developed a bluesy and swinging New Orleans-anchored sound.

Alexandra Micuda waited outside a Verizon store in San Francisco since before 3 a.m. to get the store's very first Google Android phone.

French Ambassador Pierre Vimont will award trumpeter Wynton Marsalis the insignia of chevalier of the Legion of Honor Friday night at the French Embassy in New York.

Trumpeter and jazz legend Wynton Marsalis is now offering Christmas Jazz Jam , his first holiday album in 20 years.

Wynton Marsalis translates life into jazz. Duke Ellington liked to do that too, but Mr.

Nicholas Payton has to be on the short list of the finest living jazz trumpeters.

Raised in New Orleans but resident in London since 2002, trumpeter Abram Wilson's relaxed fluency and tonal control recall other alumni of the Crescent City such as Wynton Marsalis and Terence Blanchard.

Born in Fort Smith, Arkansas but brought up in New Orleans, where he studied at the Center for Creative Artists-alma mater of fellow trumpeters Wynton Marsalis , Terence Blanchard and Nicholas Payton -Abram Wilson relocated to London in 2002.

Published: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 4:52 a.m. WASHINGTON Michelle and Barack Obama sat one table over from J. Lo and Marc Anthony, and all four of them were rocking in their seats as Sheila E. shook the house - well, really the tent.

IN Australia he was a rising jazz star, but that didn't count for much in the US, where no one knew his name.

WYNTON MARSALIS: The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note.

The American Boychoir will perform Friday evening at Grace Episcopal Church in New Bedford.

Ferenc Koscso, Technical Director of Penna-Media, elected to build elevated stands to either side of the stage that each accommodated four Danley full-range loudspeakers Multiple Grammy-honored trumpeter Wynton Marsalis recently traveled with his Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra to perform for a packed house of more than 1,700 at the Budapest Congress ...

In addition to his long career as one of modern jazz's finest trumpet blowers and composers, Wynton Marsalis has waged a sort of one-man PR campaign for jazz education.