[Dixielandjazz] Miscellaneous Ramblings

[Steve barbone]

Here are a couple of interesting snips from the Arts Section of this
morning's New York Times. One about Marsalis (the man some of us love to
hate), and the other about music therapy as medical treatment at Beth Israel
Medical Center in NYC, which brings back memories of a post by Janie McCue
Lynch a while back.

Cheers,
Steve


A Milestone for Marsalis

Has it really been 25 years? Jazz at Lincoln Center has announced that this
year's fall gala, set for Nov. 14 at Rose Hall, will honor its artistic
director, Wynton Marsalis, on the 25th anniversary of his arrival on the
national music scene. Mr. Marsalis, left, was a teenage trumpet prodigy when
he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1980 and, later that year, signed
with Columbia Records. He was a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center in 1991.
Among the artists scheduled to perform at the gala are the Alvin Ailey
American Dance Theater, the Kronos Quartet and, of course, the Lincoln
Center Jazz Orchestra.

Music & Medicine

.... In other jazz news, the trumpeters Clark Terry and Jon Faddis will
perform at the opening of the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine
at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York on Nov. 1. The center, an
expansion of the hospital's decade-old Louis and Lucille Armstrong Music
Therapy Program, will provide music therapy to complement medical treatment,
primarily for patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease.