Wynton Marsalis

Shirley Horn at the 2001 Singapore International Jazz Festival.

Music & Culture

Shirley Horn: the queen of silence and anticipation

6:22pm March 10, 2022

by Sarah Geledi

We celebrate Women's History Month with a spotlight on Miss Shirley Horn. We bring you a 1991 concert featuring special guests Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Toots Thielemans and more.

Saxophonist Camille Thurman and bassist Endea Owens play at a Community Cookout in Jamaica, Queens on Sunday May 9, 2021

Music & Culture

Bassist Endea Owens Cooks Up Jazz For The Community

1:50pm July 01, 2021

We hear the young bassist Endea Owens with Wynton Marsalis, Jon Batiste and trace her Detroit roots to learn how she's giving back to her community with free meals and free concerts on the street.

A Swingin' Sesame Street Celebration: 50 Years and Counting with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Elmo, Abby, Big Bird, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, Rosita, Bert & Ernie and Count Von Count.

Music & Culture

Swinging The Clouds Away: Jazz Takes Over Sesame Street

1:09pm October 23, 2020

On this show, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis invite the Sesame Street gang onstage. Plus, trombonist Joe Fielder's Open Sesame share rare songs from the Sesame songbook.

Music & Culture

Jazz, Love and Letting Loose: Brooklyn's Surprising Senior Jazz Scene

7:49am December 10, 2018

by Niki Walker

Jazz 966 is a senior center by day, but, on Friday nights, it transforms into a swinging jazz club catering to seniors who love to hear live music.

Arts

Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra Brings Performance And Education To Greensboro

10:09am April 20, 2017

by David Ford

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) is busy at work here in the Triad.

Mel Brooks receives the National Medal of Arts during an East Room ceremony at the White House on Thursday.

At White House, A Golden Moment For America's Great Artists And Patrons

3:43pm September 22, 2016

by Colin Dwyer

Two dozen luminaries — from Terry Gross to Mel Brooks, Morgan Freeman to Louise Glück — got laurels Thursday, as President Obama awarded the National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals.