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Jazz at Lincoln Center: Red Hot Holiday Stomp

From: Murray Street Productions
Length: 00:58:01

It's a Crescent City Christmas when Wynton Marsalis joins with father Ellis Marsalis and friends Roberta Gumbel, Herlin Riley, Wycliffe Gordon, Don Vappie and more at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall. Read the full description.

Wyntoninsantassleigh_small ALL NEW!!! FREE TO ALL STATIONS!!! When Santa and the Mrs. get to dancin' the " New Orleans Bump," you know you're walking in a Wynton Wonderland--a place where joyous music meets comic storytelling. Wynton and Ellis Marsalis, Roberta Gumbel, Herlin Riley, Wycliffe Gordon, Don Vappie and friends rattle the rafters with holiday classics swung with Crescent City style. Bells, baby. Bells.

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ALL NEW!!! FREE TO ALL STATIONS!!! When Santa and the Mrs. get to dancin' the " New Orleans Bump," you know you're walking in a Wynton Wonderland--a place where joyous music meets comic storytelling. Wynton and Ellis Marsalis, Roberta Gumbel, Herlin Riley, Wycliffe Gordon, Don Vappie and friends rattle the rafters with holiday classics swung with Crescent City style. Bells, baby. Bells.

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