Press release:
Last night, the legendary American jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis made a surprise debut performance at the Edinburgh International Festival, leading an Up Late concert at the Hub, home of the International Festival. The Brazilian bandolim virtuoso Hamilton de Holanda also joined Marsalis on stage as a special guest.
The concert launches the Up Late series, a selection of special nights in the Hub where celebrated unannounced guest curators and international artists keep audiences up late and entertained into the night. This concert was filmed for Sky Arts and will be broadcast 1st October at 10pm, alongside another of Edinburgh International Festival’s Up Late concerts, broadcast on 24th September.
Wynton Marsalis is one of the world’s most renowned jazz musicians, whose performances and compositions have earned him nine Grammy Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
press photo: Maxime Ragni/Edinburgh Festival
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