NORTHERN LIGHTS - Marsalis, famed orchestra play Nash’s suite sounds
Sunday, March 21, 2010
A near sellout crowd in Walton Arts Center’s Baum Walker Hall came to hear jazz great Wynton Marsalis the night of March 11 but got much more - and liked it - as Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performed Portrait in Seven Shades, a long-form tribute to modern artists composed by reedman Ted Nash. The piece’s seven movements were inspired by the lives, styles and works of seven masters - Chagall, Dali, Matisse, Monet, Picasso, Pollack and van Gogh- and featured various members and combinations of members within the 15-piece orchestra. Marsalis had played in Fayetteville only one other time, more than 20 years ago, when local jazz aficionado Robert Ginsburg brought him to the ballroom of the University of ...
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Northwest Profile, Pages 39 on 03/21/2010
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