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Article: When Wynton Met Willie.(Entertainment; Music)(Wynton Marsalis, Willie Nelson)(Interview)
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- Newsweek
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- July 28, 2008
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Byline: Lorraine Ali
Marsalis and Nelson are an odd musical couple, but they make the sweetest blues you've ever heard.
Wynton wears crisp suits, reads sheet music and is the musical director of New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center. Willie wears crumpled jeans, wings it onstage and runs his concert venue, Willie's Place, out of a truck stop in Abbott, Texas. So what exactly do these music legends have in common? The blues, of course. Wynton Marsalis, 46, and Willie Nelson, 75, are the two men on the new CD "Two Men With the Blues," a live recording culled from two concerts they played at Lincoln Center last year. "I like playing with Wynton," says Nelson, ...
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... ... s Lincoln Center? It's as toe-curling as purists might imagine. Marsalis's wah-wah solo on Georgia is a gem and Nelson has the road-weary, semi-singing voice for 'Taint Nobody's Business, and My Bucket's Got a Hole in It. He also takes ...
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