WINTON MARSALIS AND HIS JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA DECIDED TO PAY A VISIT TO MY HOME TOWN AS PART OF THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY SEVEN DAYS OF OPENING NIGHTS ARTS FESTIVAL - AND TO SAY THAT THEY DID NOT DISAPPOINT IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT OF LEGENDARY PROPORTIONS!Unlike most of my friends, I grew up listening to the likes of Basie, Ellington, Satchmo, Sinatra, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and on and on and on. I still have albums of some of the greatest artists from the golden age of American Music - the Forties - when American Jazz firmly established itself as OUR music. And, the best of the best? BIG BAND MUSIC! There's just something about that wall of horns and a tight rhythm section - well - I could wax eloquent - but just listen to the music! When it was announced that Marsalis and his guys were going to be here, I jumped on it. And, as luck would have it, the show was the night we arrived home from a great week in NYC. Today's Countdown Tune features an amazing singer with the band - Cecile McLorin Salvant. She's only 25 and destined to be a legend. Listen up as she delivers a killer arrangement of the classic HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS - ENJOY.
d.l.Stafford
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