Assimilate, innovate and entertain

Like brother Wynton, Marsalis’ reach extends far beyond the loosely constructed bounds of jazz, casting him as a transcendent musical personality. He has applied his collaborative spirit broadly — working with Sting, The Grateful Dead, James Taylor and Bruce Hornsby. He also possesses a charisma that translates to popular media — serving as Jay Leno’s first “Tonight Show” bandleader, appearing in Spike Lee movies and on shows such as “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” — and a sense of community, laboring alongside Harry Connick Jr. and others as caretakers for musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Yet all these interests remain in balance, and Marsalis has never for...
Roger Catlin's TV Eye

... with coverage starting at 2 pm Somewhere in those hours, Steve Winwood and Daughtry will perform and Wynton Marsalis will play a musical tribute to New ...
Television viewing guide for pregame programming for Super Bowl

—Segment on musician Wynton Marsalis paying a special tribute to his beloved city of New Orleans . —Musical performances by Steve Winwood and Daughtry, ...
Jazz at Orchestra Hall Series Announced for 2010-2011

A protégé of Wynton Marsalis, founder of the popular Los Hombres Caliente, and leader of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and his own quintet, Mayfield has ...
At Rose Theater, Praising Jazz Virtuosos Here and Gone

... whose resident orchestra played music by the honorees, and whose artistic director, Wynton Marsalis, brought a warm efficiency to his role as host. ...
A Jazz Saxophonists Homecoming at Dizzys Club Coca-Cola

Mr. Anderson, a Brooklyn native, emerged in the late 1980s as a sideman with Wynton Marsalis, and later a charter member of Mr. Marsalis's efforts at Jazz ...
Wynton Marsalis, a jazz legend plays on

By theGrio Everyone knows that Wynton Marsalis lives and breathes by his trumpet. This is a man who has accomplished a lot with his instument and love of ...
10 (or, to get in the mood, X) essential things to know about Super Bowl 44 (er, XLIV)

Plaxico Burress, a segment on musician Wynton Marsalis, and a Food Network piece on tailgate food (of course, if you wait until then to cook your snacks ...
Portrait in Seven Shades
JLCO head and star trumpeter Wynton Marsalis follows trombonist Vincent Gardner with a fiery statement on the multi-sectioned, cubist-inspired "Picasso. ...
Wynton Marsalis / Richard Galliano
Although they both led troubled lives, Holiday and Piaf had very little in common musically. But when Galliano, the French accordion virtuoso, and Marsalis ...