My daddy was a humble man with a lyrical sound that captured the spirit of place--New Orleans, the Crescent City, The Big Easy, the Curve. He was a stone-cold believer without extravagant tastes...
An important cog in the ever turning wheel of universal humanism has passed through leaving all he touched better than it was before. He was and will always be: purveyor of pentatonic perfection; master of blues inflected melodies; hero of vertical and horizontal harmonic…
I had the honor of playing on
#MisterRogers
’ show in 1986. Never before have I interacted with a staff that was as fired up about their boss. And they weren’t at all exaggerating. Today, he is being honored with a Doodle
@GoogleDoodles
#workingwithgoogle
Chick in Marciac 2019 at 3 am, after playing his own 1-1/2 hour set and sitting through our 1-1/2, he agrees to come up on our bandstand for the encore, says he would rather accompany than solo, plays the hell out of a tune he doesn’t know...
Absolute and thorough soul through and through. Not just the Queen of song, Ms. Franklin was a fount of great stories delivered with downhome wit, intelligence and incredible insight. The soul quotient in the world is lower today.
#ArethaFranklin
In celebration of jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden’s 146th birthday,
@boldenmovie
wants to honor his legacy with a series of unreleased Director’s Cut.
Directed by Dan Pritzker, with music by Wynton Marsalis.
Stream BOLDEN now on Prime Video, Apple TV and more…
Second line at Harry Belafonte “A Celebration of Life” on “Just a Closer Walk With Thee” and “Oh, Didn’t He Ramble”... Last night at The
@RiversideNYC
Video courtesy of
@rolandsmartin
and
@BlkStarNetwork
YouTube channels
Our great Juilliard trumpet section! Playing this swing version of the Abblasen after seeing it a few minutes before. Not just great players, but great musicians and soulful people. It's a joy to know them and hear them play and learn about the world from their perspective. Love!
Our second night in Tokyo… I stood outside, greeting the fans that had waited to see me, and I saw their faces filled with joy. I’m blessed and thankful
I am humbled to have been given the Key to the City of New York.
Thank you to
@NYCMayor
@BillDeBlasio
(and to board member Stephen R. Aiello) for the honor
To the Gods of trumpet players and of trumpet playing: thank you for all you have allowed me to experience through our instrument. All of these salutations have made me get my Arban book out today. Love and thanks to you, and I hope to see you somewhere in the world very soon.
Thank you to the city of
@guanajuato
for the warm welcome. We look forward to the
@jazzdotorg
's Jazz For Young People concert today and our performance this evening. Honored to be part of the
@cervantino
50th anniversary events!
The spirit of jazz is a powerful thing.
Night before last, we had the pleasure of playing in Szczecin, Poland. (Shh-CHECH-in) Our man, saxophonist, composer organizer and cultural force, Sylwester Ostrowski and his wife Anna are presenting us. They are here doing it all:…
"Louis Armstrong was embraced by the world. All people, races... he didn't like to segregate himself from people, of any kind. From THE people! He was a humanist."
Check my full piece for
@USOPEN
by
@ESPN
filmed at
@ArmstrongHouse
On January 2009, The Honorable Sandra Day O’Connor and I filmed short clips discussing the relationship between the U.S. government and jazz music. The result was broadcast on Martin Luther King Day during Jazz at Lincoln Center’s “Let Freedom Swing!” concert in Washington D.C.,…
A young percussionist approached for a quick chat backstage prior to my talk in Rotterdam today. I invited him to join me on stage for an impromptu performance during the conclusion of the Q&A segment post-lecture
@NexusInstituut
Out today on what would have been Satchmo's 122nd birthday, it's “Wynton Marsalis Plays Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Sevens”! Recorded live in Rose Theater in 2006, this new digital-only
@bluenoterecords
release assembles my longtime collaborators including trombonist Wycliffe…
A man of intelligence, humor and grace. A man with a big big heart. A trumpeter for humanity and a believer in our ascendancy through collective creativity. (I hope he doesn’t play the trumpet for the archangel Gabrielle)
#KofiAnnan
“In a world of diversity where often values clash, music leaps across language barriers and unites people of quite different cultural backgrounds. And so, through music, all peoples can come together to make the world a more harmonious place” Kofi Annan.
@wyntonmarsalis
Marion Felder playing two bars in 6/8 and one bar in 5/8 and Carlos Henriquez playing the Nañigo pattern with a butter knife. Dan & Walter add their taste of rhythm throughout the groove... the
@jazzdotorg
Orchestra warming up at Victoria Hall in Geneva, Switzerland
My quintet featuring my brother
@bmarsalis
and my father Ellis Marsalis Jr. In rehearsal for our upcoming concert at
@Jazz_in_Marciac
2018. Don’t miss
@Livestream
and FB Live on July 31
Thank you so much to the incredibly talented
@alisonbalsom
, to all the wonderful musicians of the
@londonsymphony
, and to the esteemed Maestro Antonio Pappano for their unforgettable performance tonight at
@BarbicanCentre
It is with great honor and respect that I accept the 2023 Praemium Imperiale for Music by the Government of Japan in conjunction with the Japan Art Association. The live event announcing this year’s honorees is being hosted today by First Lady Dr. Jill Biden at the White House…
Just as many in the continuum of our music poured information and aspirations into him, Roy Hargrove gave selflessly to others, particularly to young musicians. He did everything he could to ensure that the circle would not be broken...
The Wynton Marsalis Septet playing "Winter Wonderland" for BET Special Christmas.
Filmed on November 17, 1993 at BET Studios in Washington, D.C.
Wynton Marsalis, trumpet
Wycliffe Gordon, trombone
Victor Goines, tenor sax and clarinet
Wess 'Warmdaddy' Anderson, alto sax
Reginald…
implications, giant of saxophone regardless of register; improviser extraordinaire in any and all musical environments; mercurial wit and biting humorist with uncommon humility and depth of understanding, seer, reader, and interpreter of ancient and modern myth…jazz messenger.
Today I taught my first two classes at
@jazzdotorg
Summer Jazz Academy 2020: "Listening Class" and "Jazz Language". Check out the next FREE lessons and full schedule on
Soloing on “The Struggle To Become Aware” (from: Integrity Suite) at rehearsal for tomorrow’s concert at
@Jazz_in_Marciac
.
Watch live webcast on FB Live starting August 3 at 11pm CEST
Talking to the
@verbierfestival
Orchestra about the third movement of my Trumpet Concerto.
In rehearsal with Håkan Hardenberger on the trumpet and maestro Christoph Eschenbach
Just in time for the festive season, it’s “Winter Wonderland” with my daughter Oni on vocals. Stream the full track, and get into the spirit, November 30 on
@Spotify
and
@AppleMusic
Our pianist Dan nimmer warming up on Tadd Dameron's “If You Could See Me Now” before tonight’s show with the
@jazzdotorg
Orchestra at
@kyperformingart
in Louisville, KY
The Septet sound checking “Petite Suite for Savion
#2
” with special guests
@Kengo__Nakamura
and Ozone Makoto for tonight’s show at Shinjuku Bunka Center in Tokyo 🇯🇵
“…What I learned from listening to my father about the importance of rhythm sections, servant leadership and kings in jazz...”
Excerpt from the
@NexusInstituut
Lecture on November 12, 2023 in Rotterdam, ‘Calling Dr. Jazz: the Case for Integrity’.
Watch the full lecture on…
Behind the scenes look at what went into the musical creation of a scene of
@boldenmovie
Directed by Dan Pritzker, with music by Wynton Marsalis.
Stream BOLDEN now on Prime Video, Apple TV and more…