Young Jazz Trumpeter Summer Camargo Is Grateful for the Good Times
As one of the youngest members ever to join the Saturday Night Live band, trumpet prodigy Summer Camargo studies jazz’s past to help chart its future.
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The 10 Best Wynton Marsalis Albums
Wynton Marsalis is one of the most prolific instrumentalists of the last 40 years. A virtuoso in both jazz and Western classical music, he has recorded as many as 75 times as a leader.
Jazz Today: Young Women Are Sounding the Horns
The story of 11th grade trumpeter and composer Summer Camargo and her inspiring success at the elite Essentially Ellington festival shows that the future of jazz will, finally, be more female.
Finding the Sublime in Jazz, an Argument for Abstraction
Jazz columnist Will Layman presents seven pieces of music as evidence of the beauty and urgency of pure sound in instrumental jazz.
We Are the Hope: An Interview With Jazz Master Wynton Marsalis
Marsalis speaks to PopMatters about The Absynnian Mass, his inspirations, compositional techniques, and the reason he plays music.
Yesterday and Today—Jazz Trumpets Across the Divide
Avant garde trumpeter Nate Wooley has chosen to interpret the music of his childhood hero, the conservative Wynton Marsalis. Why not?
Wynton Marsalis: The Spiritual Side of Wynton Marsalis
The Spiritual Side of Wynton Marsalis surveys highlights of Marsalis’ spiritually infused jazz music.
Chick Corea and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: 16 May 2013 – New York
Chick Corea's performance with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra was the kickoff to the festival named after him, and a masterful evening.