Consequence of Sound — An album featuring new spins on old songs, featuring the likes of Bryce Dessner, yMusic, Wynton Marsalis, and Bill Frisell. more info

Consequence of Sound — An album featuring new spins on old songs, featuring the likes of Bryce Dessner, yMusic, Wynton Marsalis, and Bill Frisell. more info

Stereogum — Before wrapping up his farewell tour next month, Paul Simon will release a new album called In The Blue Light , on which he revisits and reimagines tracks from throughout his discography with musicians ranging from Wynton Marsalis to Bryce Dessner. ... more info

New York Times — What stood out in live jazz this June? The trumpeter debuted a polemical opera and Vijay Iyer assembled a series addressing racial identity. more info

Stereogum — Wynton Marsalis could learn a thing or two from R+R=NOW. For years now, people like pianist Robert Glasper, saxophonist Terrace Martin, and trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah have been blurring the lines between jazz, R&B, funk, and hip-hop, som... more info

Stereogum — Yesterday, the veteran jazz trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis, who has been a divisive force in both his genre and in culture in general for decades, pissed a lot of people off with his comments about rap music. Appearing on Jonathan Capehart's ... more info

Consequence of Sound — Marsalis says hip-hop is indicative of "how we’ve lost our grip on our morality in the black community… using pornography and profanity and addressing ourselves in the lowest, most disrespectful form." more info

Stereogum — Wynton Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, and Pulitzer Prizewinner. He's also built himself a longtime reputation as a jazz purist, one who refuses to integrate music like avant-garde jazz or fusion into his work, which is otherwise immersed in the g... more info

Guardian Music — Cockpit theatre, LondonThe Canadian delivered a genre-fluid, playfully funky performance, ably supported by sets from cinematic composer Phelan Burgoyne and Cuban violinist Omar PuenteThe versatile and personable Canadian trumpeter Jay Phelps â€â€... more info

JamBase — Between 2003 and 2007, Jazz At Lincoln Center in New York City hosted a series of galas that found Jazz At Lincoln Center Managing & Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis (a nine-time Grammy winner himself) and his Septet joined by an unbelievable roster... more info