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  • August 05, 2011
    [live Review] Opening Night, Newport Jazz Fest
    By Jon Garelick
    "My God, Wynton Marsalis really IS the best jazz trumpet player alive!" Thats' what I was thinking as the big W solo'd for about a thousand choruses of a very uptempo "Autumn Leaves"at the Newport Casino tonight -- the opening night of the weekend long Newport Jazz Festival. Wynton crafted one beautiful phrase after another at the lightning tempo, strings of diamond-hard notes, punctuated with a variety of dips, slides, and rests.

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[live Review] Opening Night, Newport Jazz Fest
Published 8/5/2011 by Jon Garelick
"My God, Wynton Marsalis really IS the best jazz trumpet player alive!" Thats' what I was thinking as the big W solo'd for about a...

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