Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) is dedicated to inspiring and growing audiences for jazz. World-renowned and a comprehensive array of guest artists, JLCO advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education, and broadcast events for audiences of all ages.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) is dedicated to inspiring and growing audiences for jazz. World-renowned and a comprehensive array of guest artists, JLCO advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education, and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, weekly national radio programs, television broadcasts, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, jazz appreciation curricula for students, music publishing, children’s concerts and classes, lectures, adult education courses, student and educator workshops, a record label, and interactive websites. Under the leadership of Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, Chairman Clarence Otis and Executive Director Greg Scholl, JLCO produces thousands of events each season in its home in New York City, Frederick P. Rose Hall, and all over the world.
Wynton Marsalis (New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961), world renowned trumpeter & composer, began his classical training on trumpet at age 12, entered The Juilliard School aged 17, and then joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has since recorded more than 60 jazz and classical recordings, which have won him nine Grammy Awards. In 1983 he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz Grammys in the same year and repeated this feat in 1984. Marsalis is also an internationally respected teacher and spokesman for music education, and has received honorary doctorates from dozens of U.S. universities and colleges. He has written six books and in 1997 Marsalis became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields. In 2001 he was appointed Messenger of Peace by Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, and he has also been designated cultural ambassador to the United States of America by the U.S. State Department through their ‘Culture Connect’ programme.
Under the musical direction of Wynton Marsalis, JLCO tends to spend a third of the year on tour. The big band presents a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions and masterworks by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, Chick Corea, Oliver Nelson, and many others, to commissioned works & arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, Chick Corea, Oliver Nelson, and many others, as well as by both current & past members, such as Wycliffe Gordon, Ted Nash, Victor Goines, Sherman Irby, Chris Crenshaw & Carlos Henriquez.
Line-Up:
Wynton Marsalis: musical director & trumpet
Ryan Kisor: trumpet
Kenny Rampton: trumpet
Marcus Printup: trumpet
Chris Crenshaw: trombone
Vincent Gardner: trombone
Elliot Mason: trombone
Walter Blanding: tenor & soprano sax, clarinet
Sherman Irby: alto & soprano sax, flute, clarinet
Ted Nash: alto & soprano sax, flute, clarinet
Victor Goines: tenor & soprano sax, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet
Paul Nedzela: baritone & soprano sax, bass clarinet
Dan Nimmer: piano
Carlos Henriquez: bass
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