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The Month In Jazz – November 2021

4:24 PM EST on November 22, 2021

Nolis Anderson

Wynton Marsalis turned 60 last month, on October 18. That's a big life milestone for anybody, so congratulations to him for making it, particularly in an era when a lot of famous Black musicians have died in middle age if not earlier. I probably wouldn't have given it a whole lot of thought, but Jazz at Lincoln Center presented three nights of concerts from November 18-20, including a retrospective of music from the last 40 years of his career and his first small group performances in the venue's Rose Theater in a decade. So now I'm thinking about Wynton Marsalis.