Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti was 17 when she met American jazz legend Wynton Marsalis. A rising classical star, she was on her own in New York for the first time for a performance at Lincoln ...

Wynton Marsalis and the evolution of the swing rhythm, but with a classical twist. We're sorry, but something went wrong while fetching your podcast feeds. Please ...

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra will spend the weekend highlighting Classical Roots, with some major names on hand to be part of the celebration. The annual event, which honors African American ...

The Marsalis family has been a force for contemporary jazz in New Orleans and throughout the world. The patriarch of the family, Ellis Marsalis, played traditional and modern jazz in the American Jazz ...

It is odd to be an icon in an iconoclastic genre. But that's just what Wynton Marsalis has become. In some people's minds, jazz has always been about stretching boundaries, so when someone becomes a ...

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 ...

Elliott: I'm Elliott Forrest and this is WQXR, welcome to a very special hour with two forces of nature in the music world, she's a world-class violinist from Scotland with Italian roots, he's from ...

Every election year is about competing visions of America and what it means to be an American. Political parties this summer are particularly divided between and among themselves. The Hollywood Bowl, ...

Saxophone star Branford Marsalis is not the first jazz artist who will perform a classical music repertoire at SummerFest in La Jolla, but he is by far the most celebrated and best known. Credit for ...

Saxophonist Branford Marsalis’s website offers two biographies, one jazz-oriented and the other classical. It’s the same talented, award-winning musician, who hails from New Orleans’ nationally known ...