Word: wynton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...November, the Office of the Arts will also bring Grammy Award winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to Harvard for a day. Ellis Marsalis, Wynton's father and a teacher at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, will join in the workshops and discussion sessions...
...earlier." Last week the bebopping hornman kicked off a two-week engagement at Michael's Pub in Manhattan for an appreciative SRO crowd. Later this year PBS will air a tribute to him staged at the Wolf Trap music festival and featuring Vocalist Carmen McRae and Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. The jazz legend still wails on his trademark bent-up horn, because, he says, "you hear the sound quicker. I never blow straight at anybody unless it's an angel up in the heavens...
...came back to be part of a tradition started four years ago. Rex Dean '84, the founder of Jazz For Life, returned to sing, as did Paul Brusiloff '86 and the Cambridge-based, alumni-dominated vocal group Centerpiece. Saxophonist Don Braden '85-'88 interrupted his studies to tour with Wynton Marsalis and may never return to Harvard for a degree. He did, however, return to support Jazz For Life, playing both as featured soloist and as sideman...
Acting President Henry Rosovsky will host the gala event which will feature many Harvard a capella groups, and a variety of other graduate and undergraduate performers, including Don Braden '85-'88 who plays in Wynton Marsalis' band and Paul D. Brusiloff '86 and his band High Spirit...
First, the positive signs Andrea Burke is an amazing singer. At her best, Burke's voice has sharp, cutting power of Wynton Marsalis' trumpet. Soaring and dipping to exquisite extremes. At her worst, Burke has the quality of an average Broadway chanteuse, not a bad lower bound considering the exhaustion she must suffer from doing eleven songs in a row. Burke's embodiment of the Woman is occasionally too cocky: she substitutes flip musical-theater poses in scenes which call for something more profound. Due in part to her makeup and in part to her acting. She never quites manages...