Greetings from Savannah, Georgia. I spent a great weekend at their music festival. After my recent time in New Orleans, I was in the mood for jazz. This music provided vibrancy, energy and inspiration. The musicians of the famous combo, Jazz at Lincoln Center, had great give and take. Sitting in the same auditorium with the well-known Wynton Marsalis was a privilege. Listening to music stirs the emotions; watching it performed motivates one for excellence. This is why I have made the journey. There is something gained in seeing the excellence of perfected craft; the delight in the faces of those who perform so well – the work of their hands filling a room with energy and enjoyment. I am motivated to perfect my life and skills; to create more excellence.
First read a FEATURE article from The Savannah Morning News, a local newspaper.
Man About Town: Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Return
http://savannahnow.com/column/2010-03-24/man-about-town-marsalis-and-jazz-lincoln-center-orchestra-return
Now listen to a feature on a CD by Marsalis. You will come to appreciate why so many value NPR.
Wynton Marsalis: 'The Magic Hour' CD, Tinged with Nursery Rhythms, Celebrates Child in All of Us
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1776651&ps=rs
The following is an opinion of the same CD. Enjoy listening.
Music Review: 'Magic Hour' from Wynton Marsalis
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1846253
Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center play the Duke Ellington tune "Portrait of Louis Armstrong".http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSyMcxwz9w4&feature=player_embedded
Wynton Marsalis visits Morning Joe and talks with Willie Giest and Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post). He explains jazz and the blues for younger listeners. Copy and paste this link.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/vp/40490329#40490329
For your comment evaluate what you heard. Why is Wynton Marsalis considered a great American musician? Discuss his accomplishments. What are your musical tastes?
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The article about Wynton Marsalis is really good. Jazz is really important and good music, like he said it calm us down as a kid. I do not know much about jazz, either about Wynton, but with this article I got into jazz. He is the international ambassador of jazz, and he loves what he does, because he does with enthusiasm. When we love what we do, it is what happen, we became the best one. It is interesting how he mix the styles and rhythms on the music and it make you feels relax and vibrant. It can transform your life and your feeling. The new CD “The magic Hour” is pretty good, all the music that I head have a lot of energy and is really magic. Like he said “No matter how much older you get, you still have that essential childishness and childlike thing in you."
ReplyDeleteI have no doubt that Wynton Marsalis is an excellent American musician. I think people mostly from the south part of the USA love jazz. I watched the video in YouTube and I felt the sensation that I was there enjoying the concert. It is perfect music when someone looks for quality and perfection. It is when you see an art and discover the magic and details involved in it, jazz is something like that. I am not an expert on music issues, but I like to hear everything. I only listen to jazz when I want to get concentration. I mean, if I want to read a good book or do my homework; it is a good way to get relaxed and focused in any activity that needs special attention; just in that kind of situation I listen to it. In my country just a few people listen to jazz; we relate jazz to people with some level of education. It doesn’t mean that the other groups of people don’t enjoy this music. Venezuela is a tropical country with Caribbean influences, where people enjoy hot weather and they connect that with salsa, merengue, mambo and other styles of tropical music. I should find out more about jazz in my country, but I think that we have a mix of rhythms in one, and one of those is jazz. Definitely jazz is the door to different styles of music and modern artists know that and they include drops of this in their new music.
ReplyDeleteFirst, I will be honest, I am not a fan of jazz music. I think it is a very particular kind of music and it is admired by a very select group of people. But I can say so many good things about Wynton Marsalis, who is a very important person for American jazz. He started his career very young and worked really hard to reach one of the highest places as a musician. When he plais his trumpet, it is like nothing else matters to him. He always gives us a wonderful show. I am sure that the people qho watched him in Savannah are very happy that "Jazz at Lincoln Center" made it there. The United States is proud of the great musician that Winton Marsalis is.
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ReplyDeleteI like music very much. I played saxphone and piano in korea. After come to US I can't play anymore. I am just listen to music...
ReplyDeleteI want to go Now york or New Orleans to enjoy music..
People from Europe and Blues and jazz became very popular in the twentieth century. A person who “sings the blues” feels sad. Usually, he or she lost something a person or maybe money or a job. Blues express sad feelings, sometimes in a funny way. People played blues first with only one or two instruments, for example, a guitar, a harmonica, or sometimes a piano. Sometimes they sang without any instruments. Some famous blues musicians are Bessie Smith, John Lee Hooker, and B. B. King. B. B. King named his guitar “Lucille.”
Jazz came soon after blues. Composers added more musical instruments. Jazz can be happier and is often faster. Some famous jazz musicians are Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and Wynton Marsalis.
Musicians who play blues and jazz change the music to show their emotions. They play the music differently each time. Today people all over the world still like to listen to blues and jazz because all people have strong emotional feelings sometimes.
As I think Wynton Marsalis is a great musician in the jazz world. He is one of the great artists in the world and is very famous in the US. As I would let people know about him is come to my country in India and work over there with one of the great musician Mr, A.R.Rahman and they both work for the Indian album which was released as dilse in globe. He brought jazz music to India and different countries in the world and now people in India who don't know about it? Today they love the jazz music. thanks to Mr, Wynton Marsalis as a great artist.
ReplyDeleteI love jazz. I go to jazz bar at least once a month which is in midtown name SAMBUCA. Jazz is very different from usual music. Jazz musicians play that with only their feelings and mood. They must have great technic of their musical instruments. Each musician makes totally diffrent sounds, but those sounds accord really great! Reading this article is a very great opportunity to learn about a popular jazz musician. When i listened his playing, I felt something what I can not express with my poor expression. It was clear and very nice. I will buy his album 'Magic Hours!" I'm so mad at Mr. Porter because he didn't tell me about that event.
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