NEW YORK — Note to Donald Trump: Wynton Marsalis thinks you're bluffing. When the tycoon-turned-presidential candidate's name comes up in conversation, the jazz veteran, who as an artist and ...

Marsalis' Sharp Social Critiques Come with Cool Riffs Every decade or so, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis says, he makes a political album. From the Plantation to the Penitentiary is his latest.

Wynton Marsalis and Jon Batiste on jazz composer John Lewis 06:12. The Trump administration’s proposed cuts to arts education and funding is preparing the public to become “more ignorant ...

Wynton Marsalis: The melody of that song is the chant, "Black Lives Matters." We have some sections where the horns improvise together. Like, the trumpet and the trombone play a solo and share space.

What Ellis Marsalis’s students, especially his son Wynton, gave to jazz was a reemphasis of the rigor and formality of jazz’s golden age. Beginning in the 1970s, jazz branched into directions ...

That box documents the Wynton Marsalis Septet from 1990-1994 at the Vanguard, but also dropped in late 1999. I have been listening to this Selections compilation, and it is so very good.

For two decades Wynton Marsalis ruled the jazz universe, enjoying virtually unqualified admiration as a musician and unsurpassed influence as the music's leading promoter and definer. But after a ...