Who better to invoke the past in tune than Wynton Marsalis? After all, the stick-in-the-mud trumpet virtuoso reveres the days of yore as few others playing today, proffering them nightly before ...

Jig's Jig; Root Groove; I Got Lost in Her Arms; Where or When; Cherokee; Black Codes; Double Rondo on the River (Pedro's Getaway); Down Home with Homey; Sunflowers; Invitation; The End of a Love ...

For its first album recording in nearly a decade, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra set out to make a statement. So it locked its sights onto something especially rich and meaningful: One year ago this ...

Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Jader Bignamini conducts the DSO in a performance of Wynton Marsalis' "Blues Symphony" at Orchestra Hall on Dec. 1, 2023. Detroit Symphony Orchestra music ...

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is releasing a new album of music composed by jazz and classical music legend Wynton Marsalis. Marsalis wrote Blues Symphony in 2009, and it’s now the Detroit Symphony ...

Wynton Marsalis has fashioned one of the more intriguing careers in jazz history. The brightest product of one of the greatest of New Orleans’ fabled musical families, Marsalis became the most visible ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Jazz veteran Wynton Marsalis has delved into a multitude of genres, from mainstream swing to ballet scores to epic narratives to last year's Willie Nelson duo. For his fifth ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

NEW YORK — Black music traditions such as jazz are central to celebrations of Juneteenth, says civil rights lawyer and jazz pianist Bryan Stevenson. That’s why he and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz ...

Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Jader Bignamini has been given a contract extension through 2031, the DSO’s governing board announced Thursday. The Italian conductor, whose upbeat energy and ...