Jazz Musician Wynton Marsalis

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. On Nov...

Wynton Marsalis: Saving New Orleans

My friend Wynton Marsalis comes from a rich musical-family tradition in New Orleans that I share with my family. From that core of talent and tradition has...

Music: Here's The Deal

Last month this CD earned the funky, brass-heavy horde of Chicagoans a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, but Ken Burns and Wynton Marsalis...

Music: Strings Attached

Strings occupy a special, not particularly exalted place in jazz, their use generally signifying either a descent into pop schlock or an ill-advised stab at...

MUSIC: SHADES OF BLUE

The J Master renewed my faith in jazz music," trumpeter Wynton Marsalis writes in his backstage-with-the-band chronicle, Sweet Swing Blues on the Road. "In 1984...

A ROOM WITH A VIBE

WOODY ALLEN, MAYA ANGELOU, Pearl Bailey, Harry Belafonte, Lenny Bruce, Betty Carter, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Woody Guthrie, Judy Holliday, Johnny Mathis,...

Packaged Pyrotechnics

PERFORMERS: KATHLEEN BATTLE and WYNTON MARSALIS ALBUM: BAROQUE DUET LABEL: SONY THE BOTTOM LINE: A potent pairing, but the brilliance may be too much of a good...

Crosby, Stills, Nash and … Jazz?

A look at jazz influences in the music of the legendary folk-rock trio

Milestones May 21, 2007

DIED One Easter Sunday, when he was 3, Alvin Batiste slipped away from his family to follow a group of musicians on a parade route--a fitting start for a founder...

A Triumph of the Newsmagazine's Craft

In an age when noisy posturing too often substitutes for reasoned debate and brash opinion trumps hard fact, we try to offer the kind of in-depth reporting,...