Wynton Marsalis

Profession

Soundtrack, Music department, Actor, Producer, Writer

How Harry Connick Jr. Saved American Idol

Season 13 of American Idol sure caught a lucky break in new judge Harry Connick Jr. Since his debut in January, Connick has received rave reviews from both the show's fans and television critics — but he hasn't paid attention to any of them. "There's just a lot of noise that I don't listen to," Connick says. "I've heard some incredibly nice things, but it stops there. I've got a job to do." That job would be to...

Tue, Mar 4, 2014

How Harry Connick Jr. Saved American Idol

Weekend TV Review: Give These Shows a Medal!

While the Olympians continue to dominate the TV spotlight in Sochi, another gathering of championship talent takes a bow in the weekend's other gold-medal event: PBS's Great Performances presentation of National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage (Friday, 9/8c, check tvguide.com listings).Laurence Olivier led the National Theatre upon its founding in 1963, and he and other luminaries are seen in vintage clips from past productions, interspersed throughout a dazzling evening of live re-enactments and tantalizing excerpts from landmark plays, including Angels in America, Stuff Happens, The History Boys and War Horse. Fans of Downton Abbey will delight to see the Dowager Countess Maggie Smith in her 1964 prime, vamping in ...

Fri, Feb 14, 2014

Weekend TV Review: Give These Shows a Medal!

The Weekend Playlist: Cards Sharks on Netflix, Super Bowl Weekend

"I have no patience for useless things." The Machiavellian politician making this pronouncement, in the sinister opening scene of Netflix's instantly gripping shot-across-the-bow miniseries House of Cards, is Francis Underwood (a perfectly reptilian Kevin Spacey). On the surface, he's a team player, a powerful House of Representatives leader in the cynical snake pit of Washington, D.C. The conceit of House of Cards, as it was in the brilliant Emmy-winning 1990 British classic this is based on (first seen in the U.S. on Masterpiece Theater), takes us behind Underwood's mask to reveal the manipulative monster within, a voracious tyrant who doesn't suffer fools gladly and takes no prisoners in his predatory pursuit of power.

Fri, Feb 1, 2013

The Weekend Playlist: Cards Sharks on Netflix, Super Bowl Weekend

Samuel L. Jackson Makes Magic for ESPN

Samuel L. Jackson, Wynton Marsalis and NBA star Chris Paul have signed on to narrate Black Magic, an ESPN documentary chronicling the Civil Rights movement through the prism of basketball programs at historically African-American universities.According to the Reporter, the doc will premiere March 16 — following the cabler's NCAA tourney selection show (Go, 'Cuse!) — and wrap up the following night.

Mon, Dec 3, 2007

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