Jazz at Lincoln Center, a popular and well-funded New York City jazz program, has opened in new quarters at the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle, to a spate of articles on its famous artistic director, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.* Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz at Lincoln Center is a constituent company of the Lincoln Center performing arts organization, whose performing arts complex, Frederick P. Rose Hall, is located at 60th Street and Broadway in New York City, slightly south of the main Lincoln Center campus and directly , a popular and well-funded New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. jazz program, has opened in new quarters at the Time Warner Center The Time Warner Center is a mixed-use skyscraper developed by The Related Companies in New York City. Its design, by David Childs and Mustafa Kemal Abadan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, consists of two 229 m (750 ft) towers bridged by a multi-story atrium containing upscale retail on Columbus Circle, to a spate of articles on its famous artistic director, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. We hear about his glittering career, his pugnacious pug·na·cious adj. Combative in nature; belligerent. See Synonyms at belligerent. [From Latin pugn defense of jazz tradition, his recent mellowing. Has he mellowed enough to admit that white musicians can play jazz? Marsalis has been a follower of Albert Murray and Stanley Crouch, black writers who expounded what Leonard Feather called "Crow Jim"--jazz is the blues, the blues is black, therefore only blacks can play jazz. Goodbye then to Bill Evans and Benny Goodman; goodbye also to Louis Armstrong, who said "cats of any color" could "get together and blow." Black jazz critics, like non-practitioners in all fields, get together and blow hard. Is the most powerful jazz impresario in America still covering their charts? |
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