Word: wynton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problems passing his bills in Congress, he should threaten them with one hour of his sax playing. Then he would have no problems with filibustering. What he lacks in skill, talent, imagination, technique and swing, he more than makes up for with desire and hustle." -- Jazz great (and Democrat) Wynton Marsalis, commenting on the President's new CD, Bill Clinton Jam Session: The Pres Blows
Born in New Orleans, Blanchard grew up saturated in music. His father was an insurance man and aspiring opera singer, and his early career paralleled that of Wynton Marsalis, another hometown musician. Blanchard studied composition and classical and jazz trumpet at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, then moved to New York City, where he landed one of jazz's most enviable jobs: trumpeter in the Art Blakey Band...
...have been rolling in. Recently, Billboard crowned her "heir apparent to divas Betty Carter, Carmen McRae, Abbey Lincoln and Sarah Vaughan." Critics aside, top jazz performers want to work with her. Wilson is the featured vocalist in Blood on the Fields, a new big-band piece written by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis that can be heard on National Public Radio this week. It's yet another sign that Wilson, 38, is no longer on her way, she's arrived. She's the most exciting jazz vocalist of her generation...
Other artists have turned their sights on the nature of the immigrant experience itself. Choreographer Fagan's touring show Griot New York features sets by noted sculptor Martin Puryear and music by trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis. Employing a multiethnic troupe, Griot seeks to capture the drama of immigration. Says Fagan: "It's a celebration of New York City, of West Indians, Indians and Africans, of big urban metropolises that are always being dumped on." Fagan also wrote a poem to illustrate the show's theme of diverse peoples traveling difficult routes to come together in one nation...
...freely and imaginatively across time and place. Vulgar multiculturalism promotes the perverse notion that pride comes about from fencing oneself in, from staking a territory and protecting it from cultural invaders. The idea of a liberal education rejects this deep cynicism and loss of faith in the self. As Wynton Marsalis once commented on his philosophy of music: "Everybody has two heritages, ethnic and human. The human aspects give art its real enduring power... The racial aspect, that's a crutch so you don't have to go out into the world...