THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, NY. Rubén Blades with Wynton Marsalis - TopicsExpress



          

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, NY. Rubén Blades with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Frederick P. Rose Hall (Jazz at Lincoln Center) Broadway at West 60th Street, (212) 258-9800 Thursday-Saturday It’s one of those weekends where you may not want to leave the Rose Hall jazz multiplex: at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola , jazz’s most celebrated patriarch, Ellis Marsalis, is celebrating his 80th birthday with a quartet of fellow New Orleanians (of a much more recent vintage). Meanwhile, at the Rose Theater, Mr. Marsalis’s second-born son, Wynton Marsalis, is joining forces with one of the great living artists in all the Americas, the Panamanian superstar, salsero Rubén Blades. This is a perfect time for the singer-composer-actor-statesman and world icon to work with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra—as if there could ever be a bad time for that—because in his new album, modestly titled “Tangos,” he shines in the setting of a luminescent string orchestra under the baton of the brilliant arranger Carlos Franzetti. It’s a stunner of a set; Señor Blades may possess the most resplendent baritone ever to croon the tango since the legendary Carlos Gardel.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:00:48 +0000

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