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Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces 2023-24 Season of World Premiere Commissions, Unique Collaborations, and Festivals
Jazz at Lincoln Center and Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis proudly announce the organization’s 36th season of concerts featuring the organization’s customary mix of world premiere commissions and collaborations with iconic guest artists, as well as celebrations of milestones and major figures in jazz and its related genres. Keep reading »
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Award-winning musician to host 10th annual community dialogue
Wynton Marsalis will serve as the distinguished speaker at the ASU Center for the Study of Race and Democracy’s 2023 Delivering Democracy event April 1 Keep reading »
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Jazz Legend Wynton Marsalis Named Colgate University 2023 Commencement Speaker
Marsalis to receive honorary degree alongside Joe Castiglione ’68, IIya Kaminsky, Mary Ann Moran ’77 and Mark Siegel ’73. Keep reading »
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15 Finalists to Compete in 28th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival 2023
Nation’s Premier Jazz Education Event to Feature 15 High School-Aged Bands from Across the Country in Performance and Competition at Jazz at Lincoln Center From May 11-13, 2023 Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Lew Tabackin Perform the Music of Toshiko Akiyoshi
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and master tenor saxophonist Lew Tabackin will celebrate the magisterial legacy of composer and pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi who the National Women’s History Museum says, “changed the face of jazz music over her sixty-year career. Keep reading »
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Middle East Meets West by Way of Jazz
If you don’t know what an oud is, you will by the end of the show, Wynton Marsalis said to a young audience member at the start of the performance. Oud virtuoso Naseer Shamma fronted the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on Thursday night at the Marcus Performing Arts Center for a program titled “Middle East Meditations.” Keep reading »
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Pairing of oud master with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra a once-in-a-lifetime concert experience
As a presenter, the Marcus Performing Arts Center can and should bring once-in-a-lifetime concerts to Milwaukee. Thursday’s night show by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra fit that rubric. Keep reading »
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Q&A: Wynton Marsalis talks jazz and democracy ahead of return to central Ohio
It’s been close to two years since jazz icon Wynton Marsalis last performed in Greater Columbus. Much has changed in the interim. In March 2021, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, led by trumpeter Marsalis, gave a pandemic-era performance in the Lincoln Theatre. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces 2023 Jack Rudin Jazz Championship Winners
In an awards ceremony tonight, January 15, 2023, at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, Jazz at Lincoln Center Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis announced the top three university and college jazz band finalists and section awards in the third annual Jack Rudin Jazz Championship. Keep reading »
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Journey through Jazz: Part III - Featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in the Appel Room
Count Basie and Kansas City. Budd Freeman and Chicago. Sonny Rollins and Harlem. The Casa Loma Orchestra and Detroit. These and other communities and masters of the music significantly impacted the development of jazz in America. At the same time, the communities and scenes inspired the sounds of these iconic bands and artists. Keep reading »