Tour

Jazz at Lincoln Center presents newly commissioned works by reed section members Ted Nash, a key contributor since 1999, and Victor Goines, who has been with the JLCO since the beginning. Following his acclaimed 2007 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra release Portrait In Seven Shades, Nash leads the band through his latest piece “The Presidential Suite,” comprising six movements reflecting, he relates, on “important and inspiring speeches by world leaders” that “use the intonation, the ups and downs of the voice, to form the thematic material, and the spirit and message to shape the intensity of the arrangements.” For the occasion, Goines presents “Crescent City,” a meditation on his hometown of New Orleans. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra serves as the basis and context of these new works.