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Whereas others revisiting this early music try to incorporate some of the funk and grit of early jazz and protojazz, Marsalis and friends keep everything very smooth and highly swinging.
Led by legendary jazz trumpet player and composer Wynton Marsalis of the United States, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra collaborated with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra to present Marsalis’ fourth jazz symphony The Jungle in Shanghai on Oct 26.
LOUIS is a silent film, written and directed by Dan Pritzker and shot by Oscar®-winning cinematographer, the late Vilmos Zsigmond. Pre-eminent jazz musician, Wynton Marsalis and 19th century American composer, Louis Moreau Gottschalk provide the score.
Wynton Marsalis has always moved confidently between the musical worlds of jazz and classical music – as a trumpeter and as a composer. This is also evident in his Concerto for Orchestra, which he composed on commission from the WDR Symphony Orchestra.
On Friday evening, January 24, 2025, in the first of 2 concerts performed at Orchestra Hall, 220 S. Michigan, Chicago, as part of the 94th season of the Symphony Center Presents Jazz Series, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with artistic director and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, presented Bebop Revolution
Chautauqua at 150: Wynton Marsalis’ All Rise is a one-hour PBS documentary that celebrates the sesquicentennial of this iconic institution while exploring the ever-evolving definition of democracy through powerful stories and performances that have unfolded there. Featuring appearances by Wynton Marsalis
On February 7 and 8, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, joined by special guests—vocalist Shenel Johns, violinist and fiddler Maggie O’Connor, fiddler Mark O’Connor, banjo player and guitarist Gavin Rice, and pianist Terry Waldo—will explore the roots of jazz in Jazz Americana at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater. Jazz at Lincoln Center is located on Broadway at 60th Street in New York, NY.
Today, Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the top high school jazz bands selected to compete in the 30th annual Essentially Ellington_ High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival** on May 7-11, 2025, at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Jazz at Lincoln Center is located at Broadway at 60th St., New York, NY.
In recent seasons, much of the programming at Jazz at Lincoln Center has been devoted to examining the international status of jazz. This year, though, it’s been all about exploring generations, genres, and subgenres of jazz.
As a young adult trying to hone his skill as a jazz trumpeter, Wynton Marsalis was no stranger to Massachusetts. He was a fellow at Tanglewood, and performed at Boston’s Symphony Hall.
Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC), continues its 20th anniversary celebration of Frederick P. Rose Hall, known as the House of Swing with Bebop Revolution featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) with Wynton Marsalis.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis debuts Cool School & Hard Bop under the music direction of JLCO saxophonist Sherman Irby and JLCO frequent collaborator, pianist, composer and arranger Joe Block.
Jazz and Chinese folk songs may seem worlds apart, as distant from each other as the space between China and the United States. However, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, led by U.S. trumpet master Wynton Marsalis, brought to Chinese audiences an amazing blend of the two arts during their recent China tour.
For its first album recording in nearly a decade, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra set out to make a statement. So it locked its sights onto something especially rich and meaningful: One year ago this month, music director Jader Bignamini led the DSO in three performances of Wynton Marsalis’ musically imaginative, historically dynamic “Blues Symphony” as an audio team captured the concerts live inside Orchestra Hall.
At Strathmore on Saturday night, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra took a scenic route through a program of Carl Nielsen, Wynton Marsalis and Jean Sibelius — composers you don’t often see gathered together, represented in works that complemented each other like a trio of fall colors.
Grammy and Pulitzer-prize winning trumpeter, composer and band leader Wynton Marsalis has this month toured with his Lincoln Jazz Centre Orchestra through Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Hong Kong dropped by for a QandA at the FCC with Robin Ewing,
Blue Engine Records—Jazz at Lincoln Center’s in-house record label—proudly announces the release of Wynton Marsalis’s The Shanghai Suite, a live recording featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) and special guest clarinetist Ye Huang.
Grammy winner Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra are taking to the stage at China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) on Wednesday and Thursday night.
Marsalis—who sat down with AFP in Beijing as he kicked off a series of performances in China—has charted a decades-long career that has seen him win nine Grammys and tour the world with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO).
Jazz at Lincoln Center on Thursday night launched its 20th season at Rose Hall with a fairly spectacular concert, which helped illuminate precisely what makes the JALC organization so unique.
Max Roach’s unerring sense of time, dynamic interplay and melodic invention gave drum virtuosity another dimension. His 1940s recordings accompanying Charlie Parker laid down a template for modern jazz drumming.
Blue Engine Records, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s in-house label, is thrilled to announce the release of The Music of Max Roach, a live album celebrating the centennial of the legendary drummer-composer, bebop pioneer, and activist Max Roach (1924-2007).
Yo-Yo Ma will premiere a new cello concerto by Wynton Marsalis with the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra in side-by-side performances with members of the National Symphony Orchestra and The Philadelphia Orchestra—all under the baton of Cristian Măcelaru.
When playing his part in Wynton Marsalis’ “All Rise,” the word that comes to mind for School of Music student Angel Ruiz is “community.” It’s a word relevant to more than just tonight’s performance — Marsalis’ work aims to translate our differences through music, creating a cohesive future built of collaboration in a rapidly developing global community.
On Monday morning in the Amphitheater, jazz legend Wynton Marsalis discussed overcoming the struggles of writing a piece of music that successfully brings not only instrumental families together, but also the people that listen to them.
At 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater, jazz legend Wynton Marsalis will give the opening morning lecture of the Week Nine theme: “Rising Together: Our Century of Creativity and Collaboration with Wynton Marsalis and the JLCO.”
Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC), known as the House of Swing, kicks off its 37th season and celebrates the 20th anniversary of Frederick P. Rose Hall, home to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO), with Hot Jazz & Swing, The Ertegun Jazz Concert, September 19-21, 2024, at 7:30pm ET in Rose Theater.
Today at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, PBS and Chautauqua Institution announced the production of a new one-hour documentary film, CHAUTAUQUA AT 150: WYNTON MARSALIS’ ALL RISE, to air on PBS in early 2025.
Just in time for Juneteenth, Jazz at Lincoln Center has released an album called “Freedom Justice & Hope”. The album is a collaboration between Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, fronted by Wynton Marsalis. Stevenson provides some introductions and historical context.
Black music traditions such as jazz are central to celebrations of Juneteenth, says civil rights lawyer and jazz pianist Bryan Stevenson. That’s why he and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz artist Wynton Marsalis have debuted “Freedom, Justice and Hope,” a live performance album of historic jazz records created to protest racial injustice, in time for this year’s celebrations.
This week, Wynton Marsalis is playing his first residency at the famous Blue Note Jazz Club in over thirty years. The Pulitzer Prize-winning trumpeter will be playing with both the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Future of Jazz Septet through June 16.
As a prelude to “Rhythms of India,” the final concert of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2023-24 season, the composer and educator Kavita Shah on Friday night gave a brief but excellent talk
The JALC season concludes on June 7-8, when the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis presents Rhythms of India, and continues its proud tradition of international community building and cultural exchange.
Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) announced the three top-placing high school jazz bands in the nation plus more than 100 individual and section awards in the prestigious 29th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center and the hallmark program for the largest jazz education network in the world.