Raise your voices and lift your hearts today, Blue Engine Records releases The Abyssinian Mass by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis featuring Damien Sneed, Chorale Le ...

If Kristin Chenoweth's concert with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra earlier this month was the celebratory grand reopening of the Saenger Theatre, then Sunday night's performance by Wynton ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Damien Sneed, and the 70-piece Chorale Le Chateau performs Abyssinian: A Gospel Celebration Tour, an historic and uplifting celebration taking ...

Decades later, his grounding in church tradition, however unintentional, informs his work as a jazz and classical composer. In 2008, he composed a Mass to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Harlem's ...

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis was joined by Damien Sneed and the Chorale Le Chateau in bringing to an audience at Messiah College "Abyssinian: A Gospel Celebration" on ...

Wynton Marsalis is onto something big. Again. The composer, trumpeter, bandleader, and all-around high priest among contemporary jazz advocates is accustomed to working on a large scale — in terms of ...

Wynton Marsalis is sipping hot tea in a church conference room before the evening's performance. His custom-made Monette Raja trumpet — with its built-in mouthpiece and black opal inlays — sits by his ...

Wynton Marsalis’s new release, “Abyssinian Mass,” is the third full-length work of a spiritual nature by the trumpeter, composer and bandleader. Compared with his epic “All Rise” (2002), the Mass, ...

It’s a theme that trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has considered deeply and often in his career as composer: faith. With “The Abyssinian Mass,” a three-disc set that Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It was odd to hear the apocalyptic terror of Verdi’s Requiem one night ...

Since its beginnings, jazz has been draped in the image of sin. Because the music emerged, in part, in the bordellos of New Orleans’ Storyville vice district at the turn of the previous century, the ...