Wynton Marsalis News

Alexandra Micuda waited outside a Verizon store in San Francisco since before 3 a.m. to get the store's very first Google Android phone.

French Ambassador Pierre Vimont will award trumpeter Wynton Marsalis the insignia of chevalier of the Legion of Honor Friday night at the French Embassy in New York.

Trumpeter and jazz legend Wynton Marsalis is now offering Christmas Jazz Jam , his first holiday album in 20 years.

Wynton Marsalis translates life into jazz. Duke Ellington liked to do that too, but Mr.

Nicholas Payton has to be on the short list of the finest living jazz trumpeters.

Raised in New Orleans but resident in London since 2002, trumpeter Abram Wilson's relaxed fluency and tonal control recall other alumni of the Crescent City such as Wynton Marsalis and Terence Blanchard.

Born in Fort Smith, Arkansas but brought up in New Orleans, where he studied at the Center for Creative Artists-alma mater of fellow trumpeters Wynton Marsalis , Terence Blanchard and Nicholas Payton -Abram Wilson relocated to London in 2002.

Published: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 4:52 a.m. WASHINGTON Michelle and Barack Obama sat one table over from J. Lo and Marc Anthony, and all four of them were rocking in their seats as Sheila E. shook the house - well, really the tent.

IN Australia he was a rising jazz star, but that didn't count for much in the US, where no one knew his name.

WYNTON MARSALIS: The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note.

The American Boychoir will perform Friday evening at Grace Episcopal Church in New Bedford.

Ferenc Koscso, Technical Director of Penna-Media, elected to build elevated stands to either side of the stage that each accommodated four Danley full-range loudspeakers Multiple Grammy-honored trumpeter Wynton Marsalis recently traveled with his Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra to perform for a packed house of more than 1,700 at the Budapest Congress ...

In addition to his long career as one of modern jazz's finest trumpet blowers and composers, Wynton Marsalis has waged a sort of one-man PR campaign for jazz education.

It's another Tuesday night and there's not one, not two, but three shows to choose from featuring three very different artists.

As you can tell from the previous post/column , jazz pops up on Portland Arts Watch from time to time.

A robe worn by Barbra Streisand in "The Way We Were" sold for nearly $6,000 and an outfit from "Meet the Fockers" went for $3,500 at an auction of hundreds of the entertainer's personal items.

SOURCE: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes There are examples here and there of jazz clubs, jazz festivals and jazz musicians doing their part to increase the audience and give the jazzfaithful an economic break in these difficult times.

Jazz saxophonist and Grammy Award-winner Branford Marsalis performs at 7 p.m. Sunday at Eastman Theatre.

Wynton Marsalis will receive the Legion of Honor, the highest award bestowed by the French government.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 18-24: Oct. 18: Singer-guitarist Chuck Berry is 83.