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Music Legend Wynton Marsalis at The Great Hall Of The Cooper Union For The Advancement Of Science And Art
Courtesy of Kim Newman | Posted on December 18, 2017
Where
The Great Hall Of The Cooper Union For The Advancement Of Science And Art
7 East 7th Street
New York , NY
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When
Wed, January 17, 2018
6:30 pm
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Musicians
Wynton Marsalis
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Wynton Marsalis, the internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, educator, and leading advocate of American culture, will speak in the Great Hall of The Cooper Union on January 17 in a free, public event.
Mr. Marsalis has created and performed an expansive range of music from quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras and tap dance to ballet, expanding the vocabulary for jazz and classical music with a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers.
His music consistently incorporates the blues, all forms of jazz from New Orleans to modern, swing as the primary rhythm, the American popular song, individual and collective improvisation, and a panoramic vision of compositional styles from ditties to dynamic call-and-response patterns....