Nine-time Grammy Award-winning musician Wynton Marsalis is in Taiwan along with the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The last time they performed in the country was in 2002. In this recent visit, they are swinging by Taipei and Taichung to meet with young musicians and to perform an eclectic repertoire of Dixieland jazz, Duke Ellington and Bebop.
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00:00Performing Dixieland, Duke Ellington, Bebop, and Everything in Between, the world-class
00:10Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is in Taiwan.
00:13On their week-long visit, the New York City-based band is scheduled to swing by Taipei and Taichung.
00:23Leading the ensemble is Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis.
00:28One of modern jazz's leading figures.
00:31Ahead of their opening performance, the group held a welcome event where music students
00:35were invited to pick the performers' brains.
00:38There, Marsalis imparted some wisdom to aspiring musicians.
00:41First, play.
00:42Really learn how to play.
00:43Develop your feeling.
00:44So when people come to hear you and your music, it makes them feel a certain way.
00:45Then they tell their friends, oh, you got to go hear so-and-so.
00:46Check this out.
01:01Then other things come later, like publicity and posting things and putting out recordings
01:07and all of this.
01:08People get excited about that.
01:09But do the quality first.
01:15Born in New Orleans into a family of prominent jazz musicians, Marsalis has spent his career
01:21dedicated to promoting the genre.
01:23He helped start jazz at Lincoln Center over three decades ago and has performed and given
01:28lectures around the world.
01:31The last time the orchestra came to Taiwan was in 2002, where they gave one performance
01:36at the National Music Hall in Taipei.
01:38I was fortunate to be here 22 years ago also, when we came.
01:43That was my second year in the orchestra, 22 years ago, and I have such fond memories
01:49of Taiwan and being here.
01:50And so it's an absolute pleasure for us to be here.
01:51We just remember how warmly we were received back then.
01:52And it's the same thing that's happening right now.
02:03Now back at the same venue over two decades later, Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center
02:09orchestra are once more inviting audiences in Taiwan to fall in love with the electrifying
02:13rhythms in their arrangements, continuing their mission to spread jazz to a global audience.