Wynton Welcomes Bucks County Back
May 08, 2021
2 minutes
A.D. AMOROSI
For JazzTimes’ (and this writer’s) first time back to physical, face-front-to-the-stage live performance in more than a year, one thing was certain: It was spooky. George-Romero-Night-of-the-Living-Dead-flesh-eating-ghouls-spooky-meets-Dustin Hoffman-Morgan-Freeman-Outbreak-style-spooky, what with the venue’s house lights remaining up during the show and a (literally) spaced-out audience in masked, rapt attention.
And yet it was all so cathartic too, joyous and holy. In Wynton Marsalis, who, with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet, played heartily from his recently released protest-prayer songbook, .
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