Wynton Marsalis says his approach to performing was influenced by his father (Credit: Natassja Ebert) Wynton Marsalis made history when he became the first musician to win classical and jazz ...

Marsalis wrote Blues Symphony in 2009, and it’s now the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s first album release under the leadership ...

(Recording) is kind of like your business card now, for an orchestra,” explains DSO President and CEO Erik Ronmark, a ...

Wynton Marsalis is a great man, but his Fourth, “The Jungle”, is no masterpiece, not even a symphony – a dance suite, maybe, with enough bold textures to recall wandering attentions. We needed less of ...

Wynton Marsalis made history when he became the first musician to win classical and jazz Grammy Awards in the same year. He tells the BBC's Katty Kay about jazz's unique connection to liberation ...

"The Blues Symphony is a seven-movement work that gives a symphonic identity to the form and feeling of the blues. It utilizes regional and stylistic particulars of the idiom’s language and form to ...

The piece in question is the DSO’s performance of Wynton Marsalis’ “Blues Symphony,” a notoriously challenging 2009 composition that’s both long (seven movements in just over an hour ...

As musical dynasties go, it’s tough to top the Marsalis family. Grammy-winner Branford Marsalis, a saxophonist, is currently ...

The recording of Wynton Marsalis' "Blues Symphony" will be released March 14. Orchestra officials, musicians and guests held a party to mark the occasion at Third Man. The Detroit Symphony’s big ...

Rooms have been buzzing with the sound of jazz legend Wynton Marsalis' smooth trumpet playing for over half a century now. The world-renowned musician — a nine-time Grammy Award winner and Pulitzer ...