Win a Free Copy of Wynton Marsalis’ Swinging Into the 21st!
Enter now to win a new 11-CD box set of albums from Pulitzer and 9-time Grammy Award®-winner Wynton Marsalis, who just celebrated his 50th birthday.
From chamber music to studio and live dates with his septet, jazz and blues tributes, film music, scores for ballet, modern classical and orchestral works, to some bonafide swing, Wynton’s musical universe opens up on SWINGING INTO THE 21st, just released on Columbia/Legacy.
Individually, the 10 album titles are as follows:
- A FIDDLER’S TALE (released March 1999)
- STANDARD TIME, VOL. 4: MARSALIS PLAYS MONK (April 1999)
- AT THE OCTOROON BALLS • A FIDDLER’S TALE SUITE (June 1999)
- BIG TRAIN (July 1999)
- SWEET RELEASE & GHOST STORY (August 1999)
- STANDARD TIME, VOL. 6 – MR. JELLY LORD (September 1999)
- REELTIME (November 1999)
- SELECTIONS FROM THE VILLAGE VANGUARD BOX (March 2000)
- THE MARCIAC SUITE (August 2000)
- ALL RISE (October 2002).
“That entire year,” Wynton writes of 1999 in his illuminating liner notes essay, “from January 1st to the performance of All Rise with the New York Philharmonic on December 29th, I worked every day from 5 in the morning until 1 or 2 the next morning. I was music, music, music.”
In conjunction with the box set, a special 14-track single-CD sampler will also be issued, with selections personally chosen by Wynton. SELECTIONS FROM SWINGING INTO THE 21st will be available through all standard retail outlets on the same date as the box.
All the motifs that are found throughout SWINGING INTO THE 21st are ideas that had been explored in one way or another during Wynton’s first two decade period with Columbia Records and Sony Classical. Indeed, since his signing to CBS Records in 1981, and virtually single-handedly commandeering the new ‘Young Lions’ school of jazz neo-traditionalists, Wynton had covered enormous territory. By the time he parted with Sony Music in 2002, he had released over 40 jazz albums on Columbia and nearly 20 titles on the classical side. No major artist, hands down, has ever come close to that output.
Yet, as prolific as Wynton was – and still is – there were many projects that could not be accommodated with an album release. The “Swinging into the 21st!” campaign was a high-profile method of bringing a bounty of those projects to his public, in what turned out to be less than 18 months’ time. (Hard-core fans could obtain a specially-printed d.i.y. cardboard box to house eight of the first nine titles, with their contiguous spine designs.)
“Each release featured a different ensemble and style of music,” Wynton goes on to write, “and a unique set of musical challenges. The one unifying factor was jazz, which is the foundation of all that I do and hope to do.” Most of the works had one fact in common: they had been performed in concert at least one time before the studio recording.
Enter now to win this box set from Columbia/Legacy.
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