WYNTON MARSALIS – 1986 visit to CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL ( Michelle Obama’s alma mater )

From 1986 to 1994 the “Chicago Jazz Express” was produced by the Jazz Institute of Chicago (JIC) in tandem with the Chicago Public Schools as an educational outreach program for high school students. It involved concerts in the schools but also follow-up activities such as study guides about the history of the music. This video consists of segments from the local TV news on the day when Wynton Marsalis was the special guest speaker for a Jazz Express event at one of Chicago’s top schools, the Whitney Young Magnet School. Michelle Obama, our First Lady, had graduated from this school five years before this 1986 concert & lecture. The Chicago Jazz Express musicians seen in these two clips are: Jimmy Ellis – alto & saxophone George Bean – trumpet John Young – piano John Whitfield – bass Wilbur Campbell – drums Wilbur Campbell played with many of the jazz masters during his long career. He can be seen in these news segments jamming with Marsalis in a duet mode – just trumpet & drums. Wilbur made his transition on December 30, 1999 at the age of 73. Here’s an article about the inception of the Jazz Express program by Irving Zucker, the teacher who launched and coordinated it along with Wilbur Campbell as Artistic Director. tinyurl.com Here’s Wynton Marsalis with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. His brother Branford is on tenor saxophone. youtu.be NOTE: This YouTube channel is Chicago-based. Please join us in the effort to propagate jazz in all its forms. The Jazz Institute …
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