In 2008, nine-time Grammy Award winner Wynton Marsalis was commissioned to write a piece commemorating the 200th anniversary of Harlem s Abyssinian Baptist Church. Continue reading
HW Pick: ‘Bluesin’ In Alphabet City’ With Marsalis Ft McBride At LC (video)
Bluesin' In Alphabet City at Jazz At Lincoln Center (JLCO) with Wynton Marsalis featuring Christian McBride and the Jazz At Lincoln Center band, Lincoln Center, New York.Continue reading
HW Pick: Jazz in the Key of Life At Lincoln Center
Led by Music Director and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra lead trombonist Vincent Gardner, the JLCO with Wynton Marsalis will perform the most skillfully crafted and sophisticated songs in popular music from the ‘60's to today, debuting new jazz arrangements for our orchestra.Continue reading
HW Pick: A High Five, For Sachal Studios “Take Five,” (video)
We love this version of Dave Brubeck's classic "Take Five" by a group musicians from Sachal Studios, from Lahore, Pakistan group of musicians who have a new documentary film about them titled “Song of Lahore.”Continue reading
Harlem’s Cicley Tyson At The Paley Center Celebration
Actress/Honoree and Harlemite Cicely Tyson attends the The Paley Center For Media hosts a tribute to African-American achievements in television at Cipriani's on Wall Street on Wednesday, May 13,, 2015 in New York City.Continue reading
