Wynton Marsalis is looking snazzy in a suit and tie as our Zoom video call gets underway, having just returned from a faculty meeting at The Juilliard School in New York. We immediately catch up a bit ...

Wynton Marsalis is on his way to Chandler Center for the Arts with Cecile Licad and an all-star jazz ensemble to perform the score to “Louis,” a silent film telling a mythical tale of a young Louis ...

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2 Full Cast Set For MAYBE HAPPY ENDING North American Tour 3 Full Cast Set for BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB North American Tour LOUIS, a contemporary silent film about Louis Armstrong, will be brought to ...

The key scene in ‘Paris Blues,’ at least for those honing in on Armstrong, is when his character gets into a musical cutting contest with characters played by Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier.

One day years ago, jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was hanging with Willie Nelson and Ray Charles when the two older musicians started to talk about their long and diverse careers. “Ray, you know, you ...