The jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis once said that nothing captures the democratic process as perfectly as jazz.
New Orleans master mentor Ellis Marsalis played an exploratory, growing meditation on "Winter Wonderland, " anchored by brooding left-hand ostinato chords.
We're likely to hear much of her modern, pan-Latin jazz live from Newport's Marsalis Music stage on Saturday.
Yet while some critics praise Mr Marsalis's achievement, others reject it as too self-consciously rooted in the past.
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And when their hometown was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, Marsalis and Connick sought to help any way they could.
It launched in October last year as Jazz at Lincoln Centre, Doha and the opening act was Marsalis himself.
But, when the album comes out, even Wynton Marsalis turns into an underminer.
John the Divine featuring performances by Chick Corea, Branford Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Roberta Gambarini, Hilary Kole and other jazz stars.
He started at the Juilliard School but by 19, he was recording with the likes of Wynton Marsalis and Joe Henderson.
And Branford's label, Marsalis Music, is releasing a benefit CD, Celebration of New Orleans Music to Benefit the Musicares Hurricane Relief.
The concert will include country singer Tim McGraw, pianist and singer Harry Connick Jr. and jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, all Louisiana natives.
Now Habitat for Humanity, with help from musicians Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis, has launched an ambitious housing development called Musician's Village.
It's an effort that, once again, Branford Marsalis has joined him in supporting, as he is the honorary chair of the New Orleans effort.
To me, watching Wynton Marsalis construct a new piece from the chord progressions of a South African folk song is a little like magic.
The three-time Grammy Award winner has worked with Clark Terry, Harry Belafonte and Wynton Marsalis, and now we can add George Clooney to that list.
Jazz at Lincoln Center is staked to trumpeter Wynton Marsalis's impressive appeal and his clearly expressed aesthetic of what does and does not constitute jazz.
In addition to that, right across the street behind you is a place where we'll have the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music and five elder-friendly doubles.
Instead of an encore, Marsalis and other members of the JLCO returned to usher Crosby, Stills and Nash offstage in a lively New Orleans-style Second Line march.
Marsalis' brother Wynton organized a benefit concert in New York.
" Marsalis contributed both the title track and "Steve Lacy.
Mr Marsalis, quartet and guests perform a varied programme of original compositions, the kind of infectious tunes, rhythms and improvisations that have epitomised jazz for much of its history.
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Marsalis, JLCO's music director, said he was impressed by the amount of time the rock trio spent rehearsing the complex arrangements in order to master material outside their comfort zone.
Wilson grew up in Virginia and earned a music scholarship to Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he performed and studied with Lionel Hampton, the Heath Brothers and Ellis Marsalis.
Bassist Roland Guerin offers a solo that sounds like a come-on from a deep-voiced player before Jason Marsalis (yes, of that family) performs a drum turn that adds oomph with resonant booms.
Since hosting 350 people in 1970, Jazz Fest has grown into the kind of event that pulls in hundreds of thousands of concert-goers and internationally known names like Ben Harper, Bon Jovi and Wynton Marsalis.
"They embody the spirit of collaboration because it's easy to just say, 'Here, I'm used to doing stuff a certain way and you have to do it this way, '" Marsalis told the audience.
He cut his teeth in two legendary jazz groups, playing with Lionel Hampton for two years and then, following in the footsteps of another New Orleans trumpeter, replacing Wynton Marsalis Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
Aaron Neville - who, like Connick Jr and Marsalis, is from New Orleans - performed Randy Newman's Louisiana 1927 with the chorus "they're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away".
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Although New Orleans has been branded "jazz capital" (rightfully so), in truth, on the eve of Katrina, one would be hard-pressed to hear Wynton Marsalis or Irvin Mayfield CDs blaring out of federally subsidized housing.
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