Wynton Marsalis News

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Earlier this year, Steve Wiest was appointed director of the University of North Texas' celebrated, world-traveling jazz group, the One O'Clock Lab Band.

When you're invited to participate in the White House Music Series, launched by first lady Michelle Obama, a little freaking out is acceptable.

Wynton Marsalis and the Maria Schneider Orchestra perform indoors at the Montreal International Jazz Festival.

A relatively new comer to the jazz scene, Adrienne Hindmarsh has begun to carve out a niche as a Vocalist, Hammond B3 player, and Pianist.

Country music legend Willie Nelson is about to release an album of standards called - American Classic'. The album features duets with Diana Krall and Norah Jones and covers American classics including - Fly Me To The Moon', - Baby It's Cold Outside' and - Always On My Mind', which has been covered by Nelson before.

When the Montreal International Jazz Festival staged its first event some 30 years ago, co-founders Andre Menard and Alain Simard hoped it would be a "nice place of convergence" for musicians and music lovers.

The online tour information service Pollstar has added a listing showing a performance by Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at the Sheldon Concert Hall .

Nashville will be visiting the White House next month. It's a part of President Obama's desire to experience all musical genres.

First Lady Michelle Obama hosted a Jazz studio as part of the new White House's music series with Wynton Marsalis.

This week, the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival here in Washington, D.C. presented a lifetime achievement award to New Orleans pianist Ellis Marsalis.

June 19, 2009 - Jazz pianist Eric Lewis has been wowing audiences since he was barely able to walk.

First Lady Michelle Obama hosted a number of celebrities on Monday at the White House, during the first annual White House Music Series.

D.C. musician Elijah Easton plays in the White House Music Series. Buy Photo Jazz great Wynton Marsalis, left, and Duke Ellington School of the Arts graduate Elijah Easton, 17, perform during the Jazz Studio, the first of the White House Music Series.

The White House sounded more like the music wing of a high school than a seat of government Monday - and that's just the way first lady Michelle Obama likes it.

Bob Karlovits can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7852. Musician Sean Jones, assistant professor of jazz at Duquesne University, performed at the White House Monday as part of an effort to renew arts education with the young.

SOURCE: JamBase By: Kevin Schwartzbach Branford Marsalis Quartet :: 05.09.09 :: The Jazz Standard :: New York, NY Branford Marsalis The music of Branford Marsalis is a bit of an anachronism.

Imagine Barack Obama introducing, say, keyboard player Herbie Hancock for a live concert at the White House on the occasion of Hancock's 60th birthday .

Arturo O'Farrill and the Grammy-winning Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra return to Symphony Space for the Make Music NY Festival /Symphony Space Block Party on June 21st, 2009 Showtime: 1PM to 3 PM.

Classical selections, dance, opera, jazz and other music from New York's Lincoln Center.

It was Shakespeare who said, 'If music be the food of love, play on.' In the recent times of economic crisis and Minnesota budget cuts, it is of much concern to me that the words of this famous English poet and playwright are about to be forgotten.