The Convener
The room, the network and the deal, brings the right people together.
Wynton Marsalis reads as The Convener because his life's work is gathering people around jazz as a shared civic language. As artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, he built an institutional home for both a genre and a community, drawing musicians, educators, and audiences across cultural divides into one room.
“We wanted to fill a space in American arts and provide enough education and music and advocacy, enough concerts for us as a nation to have our native art form when it came time for us to address our mythology and correct it so that we could move forward as a nation.”
“Yeah, for all of us My brothers, of course, as he's our father, we loved him so much. He was such a example for us. Such man and a man with a with a large worldview and also a large person he never he didn't do it small Things. He was very philosophical. He wasn't a touchy, feely. Person, he's from that generation too.”
“That's the improvisation part. That one part allows you to, you have a lot of latitude to do things. That's like the way Americans conduct business. All the innovations we have, the freedom we have to speak, the fact that we think we can step into a space and use our personality to transform a tradition. Yes, we have that freedom.”
“Would be pairs gratuitous. So if you ask me the question directly, yes, I will say I've been treated unfairly by newspapers, something like the New York Times the way our institutions at Lincoln Center has been covered is abominable. Even though we get articles, the quality of those articles are always very poor, poorly researched.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Wynton Marsalis”
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