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Westheimer and Wesleyan or visit central
market calm well super excited here our
first guests are is a Grammy and
Pulitzer Prize winning trumpeter and
composer and he's performing at the
Hobby Center tonight would like to
welcome Wynton Marsalis is here also
joined by jazz Houston artist director
artistic director Vincent Gardner
gentlemen thank you so much for being
here what a treat to have you and
welcome to Houston thank you you know
it's a pleasure I'm from New Orleans
so we're neighbors family so this
performance happening tonight I mean I
love there are also a lot of transplants
from New Orleans right in Houston tons
of them so tell us a little bit about
what we can expect from tonight's show
well tonight's show is going to feature
of course mr. Marsalis performing with
the jazz Houston Orchestra our newly
formed Jazz Orchestra here in Houston
and we're performing compositions that
are spanning the entire all eras of jazz
music and some that are arranged or
composed by mr. Marcellus a few that are
arranged by me and those are some that
are arranged by other great arranges
throughout the history of jazz music
sorry I was gonna jump in on the awards
because Wynton you became the only
artist ever to win Grammy Awards for two
different categories of music jazz and
classical right right but I'm gonna tell
you how my what my father told me and
that I was 22 years old I won these two
awards and my father is also a
unbelievable musician and he's a teacher
so after the award show was over I was
sitting on a bed talking time he said oh
that's the Grammys I said yeah he said I
hope you don't think this means you can
play for this is a jazz musician as
mother as a singer choir director so we
come from a tradition of Education and
of teaching and you somebody has to win
these awards and you win and it did
sound good but really the work of
practice and then wanting to be in the
community and developing your artistry
and that's what we're about and that's
what jazz Houston is about and that's
what I'm done this is so great that
you're here before we came on you were
you asked the question do you play and I
said no I listen and I appreciate
really good music and jazz especially
and I think this is so important even
for parents out there with young kids
keep this love of music and playing an
instrument alive keep it 11 in education
and listening to music even if you don't
play right to be an educated listener in
this area is very important just because
of the type of products that are being
sold to people well and it also takes
such discipline I mean you guys make it
look so easy I played the trumpet for
about five seconds in fourth grade I
still have it in my mom's closet but but
for you guys I mean it must be so
meaningful that the arts community and
music especially is really part of the
fabric of our city in Houston well it is
very meaningful you know we come from a
tradition I mean the Jazz tradition is
that of excellence in music and we come
from the tradition of people like Duke
Ellington who laid down such a
foundation for us to play and and to
learn how to play
so for us we draw upon that as
inspiration for that keeps us going and
and makes us want to practice and makes
us want to learn how to arrange and
write and compose and all the best and
he's a fantastic singer unbelievably
original composer and arranger he plays
an hour an orchestra Jazz at Lincoln
Center orchestra we have ten arrangers
but we when we do his arranged with
whips always absolute Vince can you sing
this for us when we look at it the
rhythms and the things he writes are so
original and vocal and he's a he's a
great conductor and unbelievable teacher
I love it and he he has the full package
of things that I needed to really create
a transformation we've enticed y'all
there are tickets tonight for this
performance available we're gonna bring
up the information there on the screen
jazz Houston Orchestra of course with
Wynton Marsalis there tonight at 7 p.m.
at Hobby Center and visit Hobby Center
org for more information to get those
tickets yeah you also visit jazz Houston
org as well right absolutely I see a
future story here I know see you in
action tonight so oh we're sold out
that's breaking news that was rude of us
to J
therefore you sorry Tara take it away
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