{"id":783,"date":"2004-08-01T12:29:30","date_gmt":"2004-08-01T12:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/08\/wynton_marsalis_1\/"},"modified":"2004-08-01T12:29:30","modified_gmt":"2004-08-01T12:29:30","slug":"wynton_marsalis_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/wynton_marsalis_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Wynton Marsalis at the Proms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another night, another Prom. I always enjoy the visits of Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (last seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/000134.html\">18 months ago<\/a> at the Barbican), so I&#8217;d been looking forward to this Prom for a while. I showed up quite early, but not early enough it seemed. Instead of joining the Arena queue, I was directed to the Gallery queue.<br \/>\nEven as I type this, I&#8217;m not sure I understand why since the first queue didn&#8217;t look that long. Unless it&#8217;s the fact that you&#8217;re allowed to stay on if you attend the first Prom. Anyway, at least I was afforded plenty of reading time, and ample opportunity to people-watch my fellow queuers (broadly speaking &#8211; young, fairly well-off, and eager).<br \/>\nThe performance was great &#8211; the Orchestra is lined up in three rows, with Marsalis himself in the middle of the back row with a couple of other trumpeters. Different pieces see different musicians getting a spotlight performance, and indeed different band members get to lead some of the pieces. Needless to say, I&#8217;ve got the performance digitally recorded on my PC to relive at a later date (it was also on BBC4 so I taped that too).<br \/>\nThe only trouble with late night Proms is that they finish at midnight, which means a hasty trip down Exhibition Road to make sure that you don&#8217;t miss the last northbound tube train from South Kensington. I love late night London transport!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another night, another Prom. I always enjoy the visits of Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (last seen 18 months ago at the Barbican), so I&#8217;d been looking forward to this Prom for a while. I showed up quite early, but not early enough it seemed. Instead of joining the Arena queue, I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}