Wynton Marsalis News

The Music Hall in downtown Portsmouth will be the go-to place for summer entertainment! Find out why the Miami Herald calls Portsmouth "New England's most appealing city" - with an unprecedented variety of authors, comics, concerts, and cinema coming to The Music Hall in June, July, and August.

Tickets go on sale for Lincoln Center 's Midsummer Night Swing starting Wednesday, May 22.

College graduation season is in full swing -- and Sunday in Burlington it was a big one.

Many studies say the job market for college graduates is still weak -- but improving.

Acclaimed jazz and classical musician Wynton Marsalis will be the featured speaker at the University of Vermont's commencement ceremony on May 19, 2013 .

Bassist Mark Stoermer, singer Brandon Flowers and drummer Ronnie Vannucci of The Killers.

Louisiana is renowned for many things - blackened catfish, hurricanes, political corruption, "Treme" - but especially for its musical exports.

Grammy-winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis leads the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, comprised of 15 of today's finest jazz soloists and ensemble players, who perform the music of the great jazz composers as well as original works that foster an appreciation for this American music genre.

With "The Fiddler's Tale" the great trumpeter Wynton Marsalis made his own version of Igor Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du soldat" . The Alabama premiere of the 1998 composition, in which a narrator recounts a musician's pact with the devil, takes place Tuesday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the season finale of Alabama Symphony's Concertmaster and Friends ... (more)

Jazz at Lincoln Center honors one of music's most timeless innovators, the fusion pioneer and social humanitarian Chick Corea, with the Chick Corea Festival.

New York, NY Tonight, Jazz at Lincoln Center proudly announced the high school jazz bands in the nation who took the highest honors at the prestigious 18th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival at Frederick P. Rose Hall , home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Cynthia Sayer, one of the top four-string banjoists in the world, will be the featured attraction at the New Jersey Jazz Society's jazz social being held Sunday, May 19, at Shanghai Jazz in Madison.

They will leave for the big apple on May 18, and will attend a concert by the world renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra under the direction of Wynton Marsalis.

Jazz bands from Garfield, Roosevelt and Edmonds-Woodway high schools compete this weekend at the Essentially Ellington competition.

New Orleans has known about Nicholas Payton for years. He's the child prodigy encouraged by Wynton Marsalis.

Crosby, Stills and Nash surprised the audience with a new look when they walked onstage dressed in dark gray Brooks Brothers suits for a benefit concert with Wynton Marsalis' Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Street performers Oppo perform at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Montreal will be filled with festivals of all types this summer.

Crosby, Stills & Nash were literally jazzed for their performance with Wynton Marsalis ' Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on Friday night.

Jazz and its influences on orchestral music form the basis of the first program in Gilbert's Playlist - four weeks of programs conducted by Alan Gilbert showcasing themes and ideas that have become a hallmark of the Music Director's tenure - Friday, May 31, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. and Saturday, June 1 at 8:00 p.m. Alan Gilbert leads the Philharmonic in ... (more)

Wynton Marsalis, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, on the "second line" at the Jazz at Lincoln Center gala, which marked its 25th anniversary.