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21 August 2020
WYNTON MARSALIS BITES BACK WITH
THE EVER FONKY LOWDOWN
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2020
The trumpeter releases ‘funky jazz parable for 2020’ on epic new album
Acclaimed US trumpeter Wynton Marsalis releases an epic new album, The Ever
Fonky Lowdown, exclusively on digital platforms on 21 August on the Jazz at Lincoln
Center imprint, Blue Engine Records.
The work is another potently socio-political one for Marsalis – and follows his
Grammy Award-winning Black Codes (From the Underground) in 1985, Blood
on the Fields (the first jazz composition ever to win a Pulitzer Prize) in 1996, All
Rise in 2002 (performed by Symphonic Orchestras the world over to great acclaim),
and From the Plantation to the Penitentiary in 2007. Featuring Jazz at J@LCO and
vocalists Camille Thurman, Ashley Pezzotti, Christie Dashiell, plus guitarist Doug
Wamble, the album’s darkly mischievous narration is provided by The
