The Los Angeles Times features Nicolas Cage and Werner Herzog discussing the seemingly insane “remake” of The Bad Lieutenant, and how prop cocaine can be an effective stand-in for the real stuff. Randy Newman talks to Variety about coming up with the music for Disney’s new The Princess and the Frog animated feature. “I’ve been dredging [...]
Tag Archives: Wynton Marsalis
Jeremy Davenport: Get a Room
August 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
The swagger in Jeremy Davenport’s step is a little more exaggerated these days. He’s riding high on the success of his residence at the Ritz-Carlton on Canal Street, a new album— We’ll Dance ’Til Dawn —and the prospect of establishing a foothold in the New York City club scene at the Huckleberry Bar in Williamsburg. [...]
Wynton Marsalis, He and She (Blue Note) and Branford Marsalis, Metamorphosen (Marsalis)
May 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Both of these albums are very effective jazz projects coming from markedly different directions, and as such, they reflect the personalities and career trajectories of these two immensely talented siblings. He and She is closer to a mass market or pop album than Metamorphosen by virtue of its spoken word content: a story about relationships [...]
Jazz Fest, Day One
April 25, 2009 – 4:21 am
Yesterday was a beautiful day to be at the Fair Grounds, but it sure seemed like the crowds were a little thin. I walked to the front of the stage easily for Drive-By Truckers and Booker T. before their set (though it did fill in as showtime neared), and the same was true at [...]
Whose Jazz?
February 7, 2009 – 2:04 pm
Belyin’s response to yesterday’s post gave me reason to go back and scrutinize the Jazz Fest’s jazz offerings more closely. Snug Harbor aside, it’s hard to look at that lineup and not see it as a complete rejection of the Frenchmen Street/St. Claude Avenue jazz scene – as players, as a concept and as [...]
Wynton Marsalis Presents Congo Square with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Yacub Addy and Odadaa!, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Montreal, June 28, 2007
August 1, 2007 – 12:01 am
Wynton Marsalis is a little like Barry Bonds in the batter’s box. Don’t expect him to bunt. Marsalis swings for the fences and when he hits it out, the whole world knows about it. His collaboration with Ghanaian drum master Yacub Addy and the African drumming and vocal troupe Odadaa!, Congo Square, is high art, [...]
The Armstrong Legacy
August 1, 2007 – 12:01 am
“All of the trumpeters that come from New Orleans—whether we know it or not, or whether we acknowledge it or not—we live in the echo of Pops.” —Wynton Marsalis Jazz traveled the technological and aesthetic passageways of the 20th Century to a point where it now has millions of faces around the world. In New [...]
An OffBeat Interview with Wynton Marsalis
December 1, 1994 – 12:01 am
Wynton Marsalis is a very prolific writer, but most of compositions have been of the musical variety—notes on staffs rather than words on paper. Until now. The New Orleans-born, multiple Grammy-winning trumpeter, widely considered the most influential jazz musician of his generation, has expanded his repertoire by authoring a 192-page hardback book, Sweet Swing Blues [...]
